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Lara Foot Newton

LARA FOOT NEWTON

  
Nationality:    South African
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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.

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below is a list of Lara Foot Newton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Hear And Now         Inconvenience of Wings, The         Karoo Moose         Reach         Solomon and Marion         Tshepang         Ways Of Dying         Well Being, The         Womb Tide

Hear And Now

Hear And Now
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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written by Lara Foot-Newton And Lionel Newton

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Inconvenience of Wings, The

Inconvenience of Wings, The
Set in a landscape of memory and dreams, The Inconvenience of Wings tackles the issues of friendship, dysfunction, addiction and angels. This dynamic new drama was inspired by author Abraham J Twerski`s book Addictive Thinking that examines the notion of compulsion, addiction, denial and abuse of self as well as conversations on bipolar disorder that Foot had with celebrated psychiatrist Dr Sean Baumann. It was further stirred by her own father who has suffered from dementia for more than a decade.

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National Arts festival

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Karoo Moose

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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Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town, South Africa    

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Reach

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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in At This Stage: Plays from Post-apartheid South Africa, Witwatersrand University Press (August 31, 2009)   

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Solomon and Marion

Solomon and Marion
Dame Janet Suzman stars in Solomon and Marion, written and directed by Lara Foot. A story of two injured souls searching for redemption in the fragile, post-apartheid South Africa. Marion has watched her life drain away. Children and husband gone, she ekes out an existence in a country utterly transformed. But it's the only home she has. As the new South Africa prepares for the World Cup finals, old divisions and suspicions seem as deep as ever, and the intruder she has been expecting, dreading and needing, arrives. Can true reconciliation turn darkness into hope? - See more at: http://www.assemblyfestival.com/event.php?id=608#sthash.wyDl1Are.dpuf

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Baxter Theatre Centre, Golden Arrow Studio, University Of Cape Town     17/2013

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Oberon Books   

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90 min play

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Tshepang

Tshepang
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

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adaptation of Zakes Mda's novel

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Adaptation

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Well Being, The

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

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Womb Tide

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a dysfunctional family deals with love, loss and hope

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