Making theatre, making film

The Tsikinya-Chaka Centre is committed to supporting theatre- and film-makers. We seek to connect actors, directors, translators and other performing arts practitioners, enabling innovative Shakespeare adaptations and appropriations that bring the transnational and the multilingual into focus.

In 2021 we joined TCC affiliate Daniel Galloway and various partners to support an award-winning, online “work-in-progress” production of Hamlet - find out more here. We also partnered with How Now Brown Cow productions and the Johannesburg Awakening Minds (JAM) ensemble to record performances by JAM group members of their own translations of Shakespeare into South African languages and then, in 2022, to produce the short film A Midsummer Ice Cream. At the Drama Factory in Somerset West, we have hosted productions of Hamlet and Macbeth for school audiences. Another schools project we have supported is a multilingual Macbeth.

In 2023 we started filming Speak Me A Speech, an exciting initiative with CineSouth Studios that will be the TCC’s flagship creative project.