All the Fringe Fresh award winners at the Cape Town Fringe 2017
The Cape Town Fringe Festival comes to a close on Sunday, 8 October. The eighteen-day feast of drama, music, dance, physical theatre, comedy and illusion was celebrated with an awards ceremony at the Fringe Club in Gardens on Saturday night. The awards, which honoured creative excellence across a number of categories, were presented in front of an audience of theatre professionals, media and fans.
Says Fringe Fresh Awards Convenor Motlatji Ditodi, “The variety of work on the programme this year has been challenging and incredibly FRESH. I am very happy to have witnessed the work that the Fringe had to offer.”
The Fringe Fresh Awards were chosen by a panel of industry experts (see the list at the end of this release).
The Fringe Fresh Awards winners are as follows:
The FRESH Creative Award - awarded to an outstanding arts practitioner making or contributing to the making of work in any genre (producer, director, writer, composer, designer, choreographer, etc) goes to:
Fresh Creative – Choreography
Mzokuthula Gasa for Abangabonwa (The Unseen)
Fresh Creative - Directing
Mahlatsi Mokgonyana for Tswalo
Fresh Creative - Writing
Khayalethu Anthony for The Champion
In the category, FRESH 'We See You' Award for exceptional work in which both process and craft are evident and worthy of special mention, the winners are:
Fresh We See You
Black Pride
Fresh We See You
Dirty Laundry En Vuil Wasgoed
Fresh We See You
Gug' Othandayo the Musical
Fresh We See You
Ikhaya
In the category, FRESH Audience Award for the most popular production based on proportional ticket sales and audience feedback the winner is:
Fresh Audience
Samthing Soweto Gold Tour
The FRESH Spirit Award celebrates an artist or arts organisation working in any genre whose work embodies the spirit of 'Fringe' and the winner is:
Fresh Spirit
J BOBS Live - Off The Record
The Fresh Performer award for a stand-out performance by an artist in any genre (music, dance, comedy, illusion, etc)
Billy Langa in Tswalo
The Freshest Show award for the best Overall Production at the Cape Town Fringe
J BOBS Live - Off The Record
The nominees for the Fringe Fresh Awards 2017 were:
Fresh Creative - Director / Creator (Game Show Concept)
J BOBS Live - Off The Record
Jefferson Tshabalala
Fresh Creative - Magician
Hocus Pocus
Brendon Peel
Fresh Creative - Script
Stones
by Ntsika Benya
Fresh Creative - Writing
Tswalo
Billy Langa
Fresh Creative - Directing
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Nicola Hanekom
Fresh Creative - Directing
Phefumla / To Breathe
Thando Doni
Fresh Creative – Directing
In Whorefish Bloomers: The Waitresses' Lament
Kei-Ella Loewe
Fresh Creative – Unmute Dance Company
Access Me
Fresh Performer
Abangabonwa (The Unseen)
Thembekile Komani
Fresh Performer
Abangabonwa (The Unseen)
Amykay Klaasen
Fresh Performer
Abangabonwa (The Unseen)
Nkosentsha Tamana
Fresh Performer
Black Pride
Emihle Mdingi
Fresh Performer
Boy Ntulikazi
Thobani Nzuza
Fresh Performer
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Megan Oberholzer
Fresh Performer
Iziqhamo Zobomi
Somila Toyi
Fresh Performer
J BOBS Live - Off The Record
Jefferson Tshabalala
Fresh Performer
Kasi Stories: A Story Not Often Told
Thulani Mtsweni
Fresh Performer
Ndendile
Sinoxolo Cezula
Fresh Performer
The Blue Period of Milton van der Spuy
Francis Mennigke
Fresh Performer
The Funeral
Mpapa Simo Majola
Fresh Performer
The Playroom
Thembekile Komani
Fresh Performer
The Playroom
Babalwa Makwetu
Fresh Performer - Bass Guitarist
Ernestine Deane
Tiana Marwanqana
Fresh Performer - Keyboard Player
Ernestine Deane
Nobuhle Mazinyane
Freshest Show
(w)asem
Freshest Show
Abangabonwa (The Unseen)
Freshest Show
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Freshest Show
In Whorefish Bloomers: The Waitresses' Lament
Freshest Show
Kasi Stories: A Story Not Often Told
Freshest Show
Samthing Soweto Gold Tour
Freshest Show
The Champion
Freshest Show
The Playroom
Freshest Show
Tswalo
Freshest Show
Worst of Both Worlds
Freshest Show
Gug' Othandayo the Musical
The panel comprises:
Motlatji Ditodi (convenor)
Celeste Botha
Kurt Egelhof
Paul Griffiths
Faye Kabali-Kagwa
Atiyyah Khan
Steven Kretzmann
Ukhona Mlandu
Mbongeni Nomkonwana
Gabriella Pinto
Tracey Saunders
ENDS
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