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Sancta AGM and 10th full-length festival awards
The SA National Community Theatre Association (Sancta) held its 34th AGM and 10th Annual
Full-Length Plays Awards on 21 February at the Hillbrow Theatre.
Chairman Noel McDonald reported on the successes of the past year – mainly the ACT, North
West Province Festival, the workshops done in Mpumalanga, the fact that we had 45 new SA
scripts for the forthcoming Sancta 34th Festival in Mpumalanga, of which 12 were chosen, and in
the GP and Mpumalanga Festivals there were/ are 18 new groups and brand new plays. Many
mentoring session were done by our patrons Dorothy Ann Gould, Michael Maxwell and
professional helpers for both festivals.
Finances were discussed and found to be in order and audited and the future of Sancta for the
coming year was discussed as Noel McDonald may be leaving Johannesburg and the Sancta
Head Office move to our Sancta rep, Henning Botha, in Secunda. This will all be discussed in
detail during the festival. Noel has been at the helm of Sancta for 15 years now.
We had some notable VIPs- amongst them Ms ET Zulu and Mr Z Gqawa, new Director of Arts
Culture, Sports and Recreation and Mr Z Qwawa – Assistant Director and head of the Johannes
Stegmann Theatre in Secunda, both from The Govan Mbeki Region. Many VIP apologies were
noted.
The Committee remained basically unchanged, except Henning Botha became Vice-Chair and
Noel remained as National Chair in the meantime.
Thereafter, followed the Award Ceremony.
10th Annual SANCTA Full Length Play Festival Results:
A hearty congratulations to all the nominees and of course the winners. The awards were hosted
by Alice Davies and Noel McDonald (National Chair).
There were a lot fewer productions than normal, because groups are finding it financially more
difficult to fund and sadly a number of groups had to find new venues to perform in, which has
restricted the type of play they would normally do. Things look brighter for 2015 and we start
adjudicating 6 productions at NSA in March.
The results are as follows:
Best Production
Musical: Cameron Lawry of Keyboard Magic – Jack and the Beanstalk
Dance: Manuel Norambuena of National School of the Arts – Dance Spectrum 2014
Song: Elise van Heerden and Susan Swart of National School of the Arts – Freedom Songs
Best Director
Musical: Cameron Lawry of Keyboard Magic – Jack and the Beanstalk
Dance: Manuel Norambuena of National School of the Arts – Dance Spectrum 2014
Song: Elise van Heerden and Susan Swart of National School of the Arts – Freedom Songs
Best Actor
Musical: Garth Davies as Doris Deloris Dumpling - of Keyboard Magic – Jack and the Beanstalk
Dance: Lwazi Mzimase for various dance roles of National School of the Arts – Dance Spectrum
2014
Song: The Lead Singer of “Homeless” of National School of the Arts – Freedom Songs
Runner up to Best Actor
Musical: Bradley van Zyl for Jack Dumpling of Keyboard Magic – Jack and the Beanstalk Best
Supporting Actor
Musical: Keeanu Jardim for Kenickie of De la Salle Holy Cross Convent – Grease
Best Actress
Musical: Kiruna-Lind Devar as Charity Hope Valentine of National School of the Arts – Sweet
Charity
Song: Pamela Hlabangwana for various songs - of National School of the Arts – Freedom Songs
Kearebetswe Mogotsi for two dance roles – “The man I love” and Pas de troix ballet - National
School of the Arts - Dance Spectrum 2014.
Best Supporting Actress
Musical: Nina Chase for Jan Sweet of De la Salle Holy Cross Convent – Grease
Best Ensemble
Dance: Gillian Bonegio – for Caracoule – for best Traditional Ensemble - National School of the
Arts – Dance Spectrum 2014(She is a multiple year award winner – Congratulations)
Best Cameo
Musical: Siba Qoba for Daddy Brubeck “Rhythm of Life” of National School of the Arts – Sweet
Charity
Best Choreographer
Musical: Shannon Hancock of Keyboard Magic – Jack and the Beanstalk
Dance: Manuel Norambuena for “The man I love” – Dance Spectrum 2014- National School of
the Arts
Best technical
Musical: Riaan Kruger, Coenraad Theron, Brian Koen, Coenraad van den Berg for lighting, sound
and followspot of Keyboard Magic – Jack and the Beanstalk
Song: Kallin Damon, Mpathi Mputi, Ndu Hubeka, Koketso Motlhamme, Timothy Ntombale as The
Orchestra - Freedom Songs - National School of the Arts
The Margaret Wray trophy for Special Technical Excellence
Musical: Christi van den Berg for Musical Direction of Keyboard Magic – Jack and the Beanstalk
Dance: Cassandra Parsons for Ballet Costumes for Dance Spectrum2014 – National School of the
Arts (also a multiple year award winner- Congratulations)
SANCTA GP One-Act Festival 2014 – Naledi Awards Nominees
Sadly, Noel announced in his chairman’s report that the Naledi Board had just cancelled The
Naledi Award for Community Theatre for 2014. However, the nominees submitted to them were:
Isaro - The Forgotten One - Gcebile Dlamini - Hillbrow Theatre Project Fruit – Paul Noko - Dala
Arts Project The Core – Nkantu Dosi Nhluvuko Enlightenment Projects
After thanking various sponsors, especially Andre Le Roux (CEO) of The Samro Foundation that
has been supporting Sancta with Grants to enable them to have high quality professional
Adjudicators at their festivals and TJ de Klerk, for his never failing friendship and support to
Sancta and the handing out of gifts, the ceremony closed and the guests were invited to a
cocktail party in the foyer.
For any information on Sancta, its one-act and full length festivals, its annual new SA play
writing Competition, its membership of Assitej SA and Pansa KZN, The International Amateur
Theatre Association (IATA), please contact Noel McDonald at 083 309 4315.
Artslink.co.za Account:
Noel McDonald
NMCD Productions
[email protected]
083 309 4315
Sancta
www.sancta.org.za