The Future is Now!
Sketch Productions is an independent Performance Art company.
Specializing in theatre, live performance and quality production value, Sketch continues to expand artistic platforms for artists.
From South African original learner programs and main stream productions, to therapeutic indigenous forms of storytelling and innovative work.
The surety of our clients is that the company is run by multi-award winning Artistic Producer Paul Noko, as well as a board of academics.
Company directors represent the spheres of theatre, film and social studies. These artistic directors are award winning professional scholars of their own works.
Who is Sketch?
Mission | Vision | Aims |Mandate
Mission
To produce powerful theatre experiences that enrich, educate and heal. To foster an environment for creative and emerging theatre makers. To provide a platform that allows space for growth and imagination. To produce quality, intimate theatre and inspire not just local communities, but the global community.
Vision
Our vision is to produce directors, writers, designers, stage managers, actors and future producers with a safe environment, in order to enhance their creative abilities.
Aims
As a company we strive for excellence in producing authentic, educated and entertaining work for our clients. We encourage collaboration with other artist, both locally and internationally, in order to broaden the scope of our cliental.
Mandate
To produce and create well crafted, authentic South African performance work.
News & Updates
What’s Going On
Since 2000, The future has made a name for itself as one of the most talked about performing arts theatres in the San Francisco area. We’re lucky to have had performances featured in the media, and we’re proud to be able to showcase some of those here. Enjoy general updates about our shows, our theater, and our leadership, and have a look below at what’s being said about us.
The Blueprint
Gabriel has a perfect plan he believes in, what would happen if it does not work? Everything is about to collapse and only one man can be trusted. But he cannot trust himself. Is he his father’s son or would he become his own man and risk disappointing his father?
Written by Mathew Dalton
Dramaturge by Paul Noko
Directed by Hannah van Tonder
“What happens when a perfect plan does not fall into place?”
Where: Joburg theatre Space.com
The Cursed Vagina
The Cursed Vagina (2018)
A story of a daughter from the Magi Tribe who rebels against patriarchy and questions her tribal customs. The Character Ntombizonke, curses the womb that brought her to this earth. The land of Zania is barren, until a prophet claims that only Ntombizonke’s virginity can remove the curse. When she challenges the authority of her elders and the meaning of tradition, this violates the ancient law of her forefathers and it is up to her people to deal with her actions and please the ancestors. A journey of self-discovery that will reveal her real identity, values and traditions will be tested. Would Ntombizonke go against her culture and disappoint the whole village? Pula!
The question remains the same, Ngisiqalakuphi isiqalekiso sami?
Droogfontein
What is water? I ask you this question because from across the world water means so many different things to so many different people. But at the end of the day, water is global, and globally we as a community need water.
Staging Droogfontein for me was less about a performance and more about how important it is to raise awareness in the spaces that struggle the most with water purification, regularities and possibilities. Where many a times we see the city as this all giving, all divine construct, when many times it limits us to our natural, daily needs. That we as humans no longer can find the true sources of these springs of life that we so desperately seek to consume.
kroes Hare
Kroes Hare is a story about a missing gang member, a man named Tyrone Willett, aged 37. He resides in a coloured community in Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal. Police suspect that he is being hidden by members in the community and hope to corner him by investigating popular spots he is seen to spend time in. The investigators find themselves in a salon that many claim to be owned by the gang leader himself. This is where the story picks up from. After witnessing members who frequent in the salon trying to piece the puzzle together it is revealed that Neville Willett who is the younger brother, knows something about what exactly has happened to Tyrone Willett. What the investigators find out in this salon about the community of Lakeside will either live or die in the salon, literally. This story seeks to highlight gang violence, mob justice and substance abuse. Allow for the real missing middle and their cries to curate their coloured culture in South Africa.
Keitumetse
Keitumetse is a site specific performance piece that explores
the concepts of self-awareness and physical identity within space.
Hisstory
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Hisstory explores several themes such as resilience, hope and the importance of remembering the historical significance of humanity. The writer becomes a symbolic figure of the varying realities of being an artist who is faced with the pressure of pleasing his family, whilst trying to hone his craft. It is through his story and the love of writing that Hisstory is told.
The Coin
The town of Ma Aa next to De Aar; a community shaken down into making do with little, where their only hope to exit the current dystopian world is waiting for their name to be called in front of the Post Office every day. What they hope to be granted, and how long they will patiently wait in earnest expectation is explored in the pressure cooker.
"You can't Bury a Seed"
Mexican Proverb
Sketch Production
Get in touch with us today to learn more about our performance schedule and special events.
7153 Modisa St
Diepmeadow, 1862
South Africa
0710725449
0710725449
