Click here to view the latest Smart Shopper Deals
The 13th Shakespeare Schools Festival South Africa (SSFSA) has announced its longest season yet with the upcoming event taking place over one week at the Lesedi Theatre at the Joburg Theatre Complex from September 5 to 10, 2023. This will mark the thirteenth time that the SSFSA has taken place at this wonderful venue.
With 21 confirmed groups performing over 6 days, this years fest - themed Unplugged and Illuminated in 2023! - will once again light up the stage as the SSFSA showcases burgeoning young South African talent. Says festival founder and director Kseniya Filinova-Bruton,
“As a team, we are passionate about building optimism especially post-pandemic, to share hope for the future in what many find to be an unsettling time. The SSFSA is a catalyst for youth empowerment and over more than a decade we have developed a non-competitive, fully inclusive environment where school-going youth can build confidence, improve on life skills and have their voices are heard, acknowledged, encouraged, challenged and respected.” Importantly too, the festival welcomes Learners with different abilities and physical challenges such as the Adelaide Tambo
Special School who, like their peers, continue to deliver ground-breaking and moving theatre year after year.
