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The 4th Annual Sancta Community Theatre Awards The 4th Sancta Annual Community Theatre Awards were held on Sunday 18th February at an exciting and impressive Award Ceremony The 4th Sancta Annual Community Festival Award Ceremony, combining the 3rd Sancta Full length Play Festival, was held on 18th February as a precursor to The 4th Naledi Award Ceremony. At an impressive award ceremony, Ros Monat - Jacobs - writer, actress, well known radio voice, adjudicator, teacher, was the Guest Hostess. She stated that she had enjoyed her year as Sancta adjudicator, confirming that Sancta had a great role to play in education and acting as a mentor for the many multi cultural/lingual community groups that needed an outlet for their talents and had been surprised by the high standards of Community Theatre in both the One - Act and Full length form. Ros welcomed many theatre luminaries, people of high profile in the corporate world, the media and announced apologies from others in those fields as well. The 2007 Sancta Chair, Noel Mc Donald said there were 37 productions performed in total, with about 500 participants, reaching audiences well into the thousands, and approximately 200 nominations. The patron of SANCTA for 2006, Ismail Mahomed, who sadly couldn't attend, sent a written message to us "and reminded us that these participants enter into the process without seeking fame, power or remuneration. They do so for the love of the art, because their social consciences drive them to express themselves in theatrical ways and because we are part of an advanced civilization in which theatre plays a central role." He reminded us that Sancta has a great and responsible role to play in the advancement of Community Theatre and must look at new and innovative ways to carry out the task and wished all the nominees good luck that afternoon Noel Mc Donald, highlighted the Play Writing Course that they are running thanks to a grant from the Arts and Culture Trust, which is being co - ordinated by writer, activist, actor on TV and film, adjudicator, Ivan D Lucas- last seen with Vinette Ebrahim (Sancta 2007 Patron) (Charmaine of 7de Laan fame) in Boesman and Lena, and which is due to be re - performed at KKNK in March. This course is as a result of them, Ismail and other adjudicators saying in the last couple of years that work needs to be done by Sancta on Script Development for groups. Noel said it was hoped that a couple of these one -act scripts would see the light of day with the assistance of Sancta Groups and member expertise internally at the 28th Sancta Festival in August 2007. The awards were then presented - A. Full Length Festival - Musicals 1. Margaret Wray Trophy - Special Merit Award - David Selkirk,Hilton Neuwerth and Noel Mc Donald for "The Ghost /Soothsayer Scene" in "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum" - Protea Stage Productions, Benoni. 2. Best Director - Margaret Todd -for "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum" - Protea Stage Productions, Benoni. 3. Best Technicals - Lara Wittels for Choreography in "Footloose" - King David High School, Victory Park 4. Best Cameo - Michael Brownhill as "The Foot Soldier" in "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum" - Protea Stage Productions, Benoni. 5. Best Supporting Actress - Maggie Eley - "Play it again Sam" - The Startime Players, Benoni 6. Best Actress - Zelia Sofianos as "Cariola" in "Ploutos" - Saheti Greek School, Sandringham 7. Best Supporting Actor - Hilton Neuwerth as "Hysterium" - "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum" - Protea Stage Productions, Benoni. 8. Best Actor -David Selkirk as "Pseudolous" - "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum" - Protea Stage Productions, Benoni. 9. Best Production - Margaret Todd - "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum" - Protea Stage Productions, Benoni. B. Full Length Festival - Comedy, Drama, Farce 1. Best Director -Chan Marti - "After Mrs Rochester" - National School of the Arts, Braamfontein 2. Best Technical - Johan Van Rooyen for "Best Set" in "Deathtrap" - Edenvale Acting and Drama Society, Edenvale 3. Best Cameo - Hunadi Rakalota - as "Tite" in "After Mrs Rochester" - National School of the Arts 4. Best Supporting Actress - Phindile Matrosh as "Bertha" in "After Mrs Rochester" - National School of the Arts 5. Best Actress - Claire Wilson as "Helen" in "A Bedfull of Foreigners" - Boksburg Arts and Theatre Society, Boksburg 6. Best Supporting Actor - Tebogo Sikosana for various roles in "After Mrs Rochester" - National School of the Arts 7. Best Actor - Richard Whitby as "Sidney Bruhl" in "Deathtrap" - Edenvale Acting and Drama Society, Edenvale 8. Best Production - Chan Marti -"After Mrs Rochester" - National School of the Arts THE 4th SANCTA ANNUAL COMMUNITY THEATRE AWARDS TAKEN FROM THE 27TH ANNUAL SANCTA FESTIVAL, THE SASOL SECUNDA FESTIVAL, THE FRANKLIN PLAYERS FESTIVAL AND THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF THE ARTS "FESTIVAL OF FAME" A new award, that of "Best Technical/Technical Special Merit" was announced, because it is an existing award in the Sancta Festival and also the adjudicators of various Festivals felt technical excellence in particular aspects of a production needed to be recognised 1.Best Technical/Technical Special Merit - "The Donahue Sisters" - Jewish Academy of Performing Arts and Culture - KDHS, Victory Park - Sancta Festival 2. Best Cameo - Thando Khanya as "Nomsa" in "The Trip" by Hope of Nations, Secunda- Sasol Secunda festival 3.Best Ensemble - "The Bucket" - Laduma Arts Project, Secunda - Sasol Secunda Festival 4. Best New SA Play - "White Lightning" by Chris Harrison, Secunda - Sasol Secunda Festival 5. Best Director - Jaron Meyerson and Arye Kellman for "The Donahue Sisters" - Jewish Academy of Performing Arts and Culture - KDHS, Victory Park - Sancta Festival 6. Best Actress - Mabongi Ngubeni for various roles in "When the Bell Rings" - Voice of Wisdom Theatre, Secunda - Sancta Festival 7. Best Actor - Collin Masango as "Wonderboy" in "When the Bells Ring" - Voice of Wisdom Theatre, Secunda - Sancta Festival The Seven Nominees for The Category of Sancta Best Community Theatre Production in random order at the Naledi Awards were announced - 1.The Bucket - Laduma Arts Project- Sasol Secunda Festival 2.When the Bells Ring - Voice of Wisdom Theatre - Sasol Secunda Festival 3.June 16 1/2 - Brave Arts Movement- Hillbrow- 27th Sancta Festival 4.Rand Power - Hillbrow Outreach Theatre Project - 27th Sancta Festival 5.Always da Case - Youth in Trust, Central Jhbg - 27th Sancta Festival 6.When The Bell Rings - Voice of Wisdom Theatre - 27th Sancta Festival 7.Bar and Ger - The Franklin Players - The Franklin Festival At a slick, well - produced, star - studded, glittering and best to date Naledi Award Ceremony on 20th February for which all credit must go to Dawn Lindberg, "When the Bell Rings" produced by Collin Masango by Voice of Wisdom Theatre, Secunda at the 27th Sancta Festival was announced as the Naledi Award winner. He walked off with The Naledi Trophy, a handsome cheque, a Sancta Winning Certificate and Medal Noel expresses his appreciation to Dawn Lindberg, Convenor of The Naledi Awards, The Naledi Board and TMSA for their continued support and recognition of Sancta and Community Theatre and also to Computicket Pty Ltd to whom a certificate of thanks will be presented for their support and generosity in sponsoring the Category. Sancta congratulates all the Naledi nominees and winners. The Naledi Award Ceremony will be televised on SABC 3 on Friday 9th March at 8pm. SANCTA 3rd Annual Community Awards and Naledi nominations and winners  Two anxious nominees for The Best Production Award - Santa Koch and Nelsen Mokoena - at The Sancta 3rd Annual Community Festival Awards.The ultimate winner of The Naledi Award for The Sancta Best Community Production announced at the prestigious Naledi Awards Ceremony last night was "Nelsen Mokoena for Desperate Measures produced for Youth in Trust" SANCTA 3rd Annual Community Awards, 2nd annual Full Length production awards, Nominees for the Naledi Award for Best Community Theatre Production - all the winners. The 3rd Sancta Annual Community Festival Award Ceremony, combining the 2nd Sancta Full length Play Festival, was held today 19th February as a precursor to The 3rd Naledi Award Ceremony. At an impressive award ceremony, Yvette Hardie, who is a co-producer of The Collonades Theatre Lab, and has been a Sancta Adjudicator the last year, was the Guest Hostess. She stated that she had enjoyed her year as Sancta adjudicator, confirming that Sancta had a great role to play in education and acting as a mentor for the many multi cultural/ lingual community groups that needed an outlet for their talents. Ismail Mohamed, patron of Sancta, re - iterated the importance of Sancta in the greater theatrical picture and said that the talent that resided within Sancta and its members was vast and that Sancta acted as a future training ground for the next generation of theatrical graduates, from an administrative, theatrical and technical perspective. Sancta now has members in Mpumalanga, North West and Limpopo Provinces and he appealed to Corporates and funders present to support Sancta so that it ultimately is representative of the whole of South Africa and ultimately runs a national festival. Sancta is also a platform for audience development and to show the rich cultural talent South Africa has. Our guest Hosts were Rowan Cloete of Ateball Productions - last seen in "Love, Valour and Compassion” and soon to perform as Herod in "Jesus Christ Superstar” for Pieter Toerien - and Kim Nicholas is well known on Kyknet as presenter, particularly "Zing”and producer. Both she and Rowan are co founders of a company, Long Island Productions, which has just completed a 52 part series of a comedic musical revue show for the newly commissioned channel MK89 for DSTV. Rowan stated that although they were both lucky to start their careers in the professional arena and that this was their first direct contact with Community theatre (though they know of Sancta well through their connections with previous Sancta Patrons Henry Mylne and Vinette Ebrahim both mainly of "7de Laan” fame at present) , they could not help be greatly impressed by the body of work in both festivals and by the commitment and dedication of the members of the Sancta family, who as Ismail said "Don’t get paid and do their theatre work purely for the love of it” He emphasized the need for professionals to recognize Sancta who were training the future generation of theatrical talent. He mentioned his mentors in theatre - Henry Mylne and particularly Blaise Koch, an Aids Sufferer and activist, who had shown great fortitude and courage to come out of retirement to play a major role in "Love, Valour and Compassion", to reinforce the kind of commitment Sancta members have and saying that there is opportunities for all of us with talents to go places deservedly in the future. The awards were then presented - A. Full Length Festival - Musicals 1. Margaret Wray Trophy - Special Merit award - Winner: Tavia Smit - "Oh so 80`s - Kempton Park Acting and Theatre Society 2. Best Ensemble - The Skid Row Girls: Both performances - "Little Shop of Horror” - The National School of the Arts 3. Best Director - William Prophet: Little Shop of Horrors - NSA 4. Best Technicals - Chanille Radder and Ryle Drachman: The Puppeteers - "Little Shop of Horrors” - NSA 5. Best Choreography - Danelle Crous - "Little Shop of Horror” - The National School of the Arts 6. Best Cameo in a musical- Subisiso Fakude- Oliver- Protea stage productions. 7. Best Actress - A tie - Claudia Tennant “Little Shop of Horrors” - NSA and Suanne Wilson - Oliver - Protea Stage Productions 8. Best Supporting Actor - Shannon Wai: "Into the Woods” - The Startime Players 9. Best Actor - Richard Stothert: Oliver - Protea Stage Productions 10. Best Production - "Into the Woods” - The Startime Players B. Full Length Festival - Comedy, Drama, Farce 1. Best Director - Oriella Van der Walt: ”Educating Rita” - Roodepoort Little Theatre 2. Best Technical - Bob Stone: “Who Goes Bare” - Boksburg Arts and Theatre Society 3. Best Cameo - Quintin De Wet: "The Gingerbread Lady” - Roodepoort Little Theatre 4. Best Supporting Actress - Claire: “Who Goes Bare” - Boksburg Arts and Theatre Society 5. Best Actress - Mirriame Lamarre: "Who Goes Bare” - Boksburg Arts and Theatre Society 6. Best Supporting Actor - Craig Van Zyl” "Who Goes Bare” - Boksburg Arts and Theatre Society 7. Best Actor - A tie between Roy Wilkinson - "Who Goes Bare” - Boksburg Arts and Theatre Society and Andy Bowman "Educating Rita” - Roodepoort Little Theatre 8. Best Production - "Who Goes Bare” - Boksburg Arts and Theatre Society. THE 3RD SANCTA ANNUAL COMMUNITY THEATRE AWARDS TAKEN FROM THE 26TH ANNUAL SANCTA FESTIVAL, THE SANCTA SECUNDA FESTIVAL AND THE FRANKLIN PLAYERS FESTIVAL 1. Best Cameo - Lara da Matos: "Come Fly With Me” - Franklin Players 2. Best Ensemble - "Desperate Measures” - Youth in Trust 3. Best new SA Play - "Desperate Measures”written by Nelsen Mokoena for Youth in Trust 4. Best Director - Santa Koch and Elsie Goetsch: "Waarom Sonneblomme se Koppe Hang” - Hoerskoel Piet Potgieter, Potgietersrus 5. Best Actress - a tie between Nicole Wilkinson "Wake Me When its Time” - Edenvale Acting and Drama Society and Heleen Roberts "Skatties” - Ridge Amateur Dramatic Society - Secunda 6. Best Actor - Chris Gouws: "7 Stages of an Affair” - Franklin Players The Six Nominees for The Category Sancta Best Community Theatre Production at the glittering and prestigious Naledi Awards function were: 1. Desperate measures produced by Nelsen Mokoena for Youth in Trust - Sancta Festival 2. Skatties produced by Chris Harrison for Ridge Amateur Dramatic Society Secunda for both The Sancta and Secunda Festivals 3. Waarom Sonneblomme se Koppe Hang produced by Santa Koch and Elsie Goetsch for Hoerskool Pietpotgieter, Potgietersrus, for the Sancta Festival 4. Seven Stages of an Affair produced by Megan Badenhorst for The Franklin Players for The Franklin Festival 5. Come Fly With Me produced by Jeremy Forsythe for The Franklin Players for the Franklin Festival And the Winner was "Desperate Measures” by Nelsen Mokoena for Youth In Trust who walked off with a handsome cheque, The Naledi Trophy, a Sancta Winning Certificate and Medal Noel Expressed his appreciated to Dawn Lindberg, Convenor of The Naledi Awards, The Naledi Board and TMSA for their continued support and recognition of Sancta and also to Computicket Pty Ltd to whom a certificate of thanks was presented for their support and generosity in sponsoring the Category. |
