In rehearsals this week as ‘A President in Waiting …’ will be performed at the Masambe Theatre, Baxter, Cape Town on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th March at 2.00pm. This is part of the Zabalaza Festival and the play has got through from the mini-festival where the the woman show was performed in the township […]
Masambe Theatre, Baxter, Cape own
29/02/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
First Kiss …
14/02/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
First Kiss, Last Breath … Jan Moran Neil Sunny morning, seven fourteen … precise, term-time schoolboy snakes her hedge, strides her path, heartbeats change pace, posting oh so delicate and eternal message – Be mine, Valentine – – For his future she will be forgotten, – but for now – sixteen kisses, a coach to […]
Zabalaza Festival, Langa, Cape Town
31/01/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
The Ulutsha Theatre Company presents A President in Waiting… Written by Jan Moran Neil with Khuls Nkatshu as Khululwa Khululwa has a question for Madiba … Creative Ink and Desmond Tutu HIV Youth Foundation Centre Collaboration. Zabalaza Mini-Festival, – Saturday 6th February, 2016, Guga S’thebe, Langa, Cape Town, 2016. Creative Ink for Writers’ Summer Term […]
Where there’s a hyena there’s a story …
17/01/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Here is the link to a little tanka about a hyena which I wrote and is published in Zoomorphic: a lovely wildlife magazine. Details below: Zoomorphic Issue 4 published! View this email in your browser (http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5c95d2506dad66cabec85d9e2&id=e0e33e6d42&e=f5c47924b9) http://zoomorphic.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c95d2506dad66cabec85d9e2&id=a46e3e7f26&e=f5c47924b9 WELCOME TO ZOOMORPHIC ISSUE 4 ———————————————————— In this first issue of 2016 we are curating essays, fiction and […]
Change
03/01/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Change by Ms Paige Turner Happy New Year, Creative Inkers. Here’s to our new term/Tuesdays with the theme of Change and Thursdays with our Cracking Characters and Pimple Popping Plots. letters from: metamorphoses same term same seat same perm same state same room same rote poem same rote prose it saps me so stop metamorphose […]
Other People’s Missives …
21/12/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Other People’s Missives – Blog 127 – Ms Paige Turner Here’s some words from Catherine Klyhn who organises such wonderful writing workshops through the year: Eleven women wrote 55 poems, memoirs and the beginnings of short stories during the Secrets & Lies writing workshop last week! Not bad for two hours work the week before […]
A Dream in Waiting …
15/12/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
A Dream in Waiting …. Blog 126 by Ms Paige Turner. Last sunny Monday I ran though the lines of my fifth play ‘A President in Waiting …’ with the actress who performed the one woman show last November 2014 at the Desmond Tutu HIV Youth Foundation Centre in Cape Town. It was important that […]
White Rhino on Winter …
26/11/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
White Rhino in Winter And suddenly … clamped on road side, zooless – but ours for the viewing, prehistoric pedestrian – pavement slab for hide, blank blinkers stare seemingly – at nothing. Handicapped horn bent towards winter earth, the haunting whisper of captivated guide, “She carried two calves for fourteen months, – she lost them […]
A Dizain for You … by Ms Paige Turner
08/11/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Tusk, Tusk. I reside in a room just ten by ten: a living room where they never see me. Though I am largely there it’s not just men who choose to ignore what isn’t pretty. My hide is a hundred; no guarantee that things unsaid in my well rutted trunk won’t be wine whispered when […]
Publications …
24/10/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 123 – Publications News by Ms Paige Turner Two publications are available. I was honoured to read at Oxford University’s International Poetry Competition Prize Giving last week. My Petrarchan sonnet ‘Birds in the Hand’ – a tribute to black female domestics in South Africa – was commended in their Four Corners competition judged by […]