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LARA FOOT NEWTON |
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Lara Foot Newton is the Resident Director and Dramaturg at the BaxterTheatre Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. As well as numerous contemporary classics, she has directed 25 premieres of new South African works, including her own adaptation of Zakes Mda's novel, Ways of Dying, The Well Being (Riverside Studios), which she co-wrote with Andrew Buckland and Lionel Newton, and her own creation Tshepang (Gate - also published by Oberon), a devastating portrayal of child abuse in South Africa. In 2004 she won The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative Award in the category of theatre; her mentor was Sir Peter Hall. She and Gerhard Marx collaborate under the banner of duckrabbit.
Plays by Lara Foot Newton
Hear And Now | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pretoria: South African State Theatre, South Africa, AFRICA >>> | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35041 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Lara Foot-Newton and Lionel Newton | |||||
Synopsis: | Jan is a reclusive book-lover, crippled by a childhood secret. Elizabeth is the woman next door who cannot help but love him. Blending wit and pathos with striking visual imagery, Hear and Now is a modern-day parable of healing, told through the story of a unique and inspiring friendship. | |||||
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Karoo Moose | ||
| 1st Produced: | Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town, South Africa | - - - | ||||
Company: | Baxter Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029321 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100585 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| twin tale of a moose that came to a tiny impoverished village oin the Karoo region of South Africa, and the 15 year old girl presented by her father in part payment for his unpaid debts to the bad hats who are harassing him. | |||||
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Reach | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in At This Stage: Plays from Post-apartheid South Africa, Witwatersrand University Press (August 31, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1868144938 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106127 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| a story of trying to connect. Two South Africans from different generations reach out across conflicting experiences and racial lines in an attempt to reconcile their shared past | |||||
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Tshepang | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Mopo | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41414 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A hard-hitting play set in a desperately poor South African township. The rape of a baby brings the township into the media eye and forces the community to face how common child-rape is in a place where supposedly "nothing much happens". Based on the true story of a baby named Tshepang, Lara Foot-Newton's play reflects on the shocking 20,000 child rapes committed in South Africa each year. | |||||
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Ways Of Dying | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54874 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | adaptation of Zakes Mda's novel | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Well Being, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54875 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Lara Foot-Newton, Andrew Buckland and Lionel Newton | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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