Lara Foot and Ameera Conrad Receive 2017 Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards

Congratulations to PEN SA members Lara Foot and Ameera Conrad who both received Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards at a ceremony held on Sunday 19 March at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town.

Foot received the Best Director Award for her play The Inconvenience of Wings and Conrad was one of the recipients for the Special Encore Award which was presented to the cast of The Fall.

For over five decades the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards and Fleur du Cap Wines have been honouring excellence in theatre, an event that is a highlight of the Mother City’s cultural calendar. Category winners each received R15 000 and a silver medallion…

…A special award – called Encore – was presented to the cast of The Fall, a unique production that was the result of real-life, live theatre, performed in real-time. The proximity to events portrayed – and in some cases, verbatim portrayals of an actual event – meant that the cast were creators, actors, and real-life participants all threaded into the fabric of the drama as it unfolded and continued to unfold.

See the full list of Fleur du Cap Theatre Award winners on Artslink

(Image courtesy of Baxter Theatre Centre)