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Lara Foot Newton

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:

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1st Published:

Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006

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Music:

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

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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

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Company:

Baxter Theatre

1st Published:

Oberon Books, London (2009) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1840029321

Music:

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

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Karoo Moose

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.
- Benedict Nightingale, The Times

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Reach

1st Produced:

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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:

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Genre:

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Reach

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:

Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London >>>

2004

Company:

Mopo

1st Published:

Oberon Books, London >>>,

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

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Notes:

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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:

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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:

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Music:

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

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Female

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Notes:

adaptation of Zakes Mda's novel

Synopsis:

n/a

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Well Being, The

1st Produced:

Riverside Studios, London >>>

2002

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

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#54875

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

written by Lara Foot-Newton, Andrew Buckland and Lionel Newton

Synopsis:

n/a

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