Neil Coppen
@neilcoppen
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Writer/Director/Designer. Co founder of Empatheatre.
Durban, South Africa
Joined December 2011
🔥 Artist & Student Special Alert! 🔥 🎟️ Book Here: https://t.co/uqZBLzZefP Enjoy Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater for just R65 from 09–12 April. Use promo code "Fire25" at checkout to secure your ticket at The Baxter.
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'Most extraordinary journey': Award-winning Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater ignites The Baxter https://t.co/04xjABi1S9
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Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater hits The Baxter 9–19 April 2025! Mpume Mthombeni stars as a former IFP assassin declared dead by mistake, forced to confront God and summon a vengeful spirit. https://t.co/4mQsQ6lc6x
news24.com
The award-winning and internationally recognised one-woman show Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater will be performed at The Baxter from 9 to 19 April 2025.
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"Lightning that strikes more than twice", a review of 'Isidlamlilo: The Fire Eater, with Mpume Mthombeni, onstage at the Baxter Flipside in Cape Town until 19 April 2025.
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Isidlamlilo: The Fire Eater, by Neil Coppen and Mpume Mthombeni is onstage at the Baxter Flipside until 19 April 2025. It's a must-see.
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🔥 Artist & Student Special Alert! 🔥 🎟️ Book Here: https://t.co/uqZBLzZefP Enjoy Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater for just R65 from 09–12 April. Use promo code "Fire25" at checkout to secure your ticket at The Baxter.
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If theatre (and the arts in general) is your drug of choice, festivals, and in this context the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK), fed the addiction perfectly. https://t.co/OJLgCcg9P0
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Karoo Kaarte se teaterspan verlaat vanjaar die tradisionele teaterruimtes en skep ’n splinternuwe plekspesifieke produksie, “Die Swartmerrie” vir @KKNKfees. Dié storie word vertel met lede van die kykNET Fiësta-bekroonde ensemble van Droomkraan Kronieke: https://t.co/TVidt7hsLd
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This clip of South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor is well worth watching to understand how the SA govt sees the ICJ case.
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We are so proud our work in South Africa 🇿🇦 is acknowledged by the 19th annual THE Awards, widely known as “the Oscars of higher education” that ‘honours inspirational and innovative work' Read about the #impact of this work on this story -> https://t.co/ilaVIO144k
#THEliveUKIE
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Nkoli: The Vogue Opera – the making of a musical about a queer liberation activist in South Africa
theconversation.com
A 26-member theatre ensemble aims to bring history to light in a fresh way.
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Gaza tonight. When the skies are lit with terror. Never forget the “civilized nations” that claim to be “peacemakers” governed by “international law” that manufactured this genocide. Shame.
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Watch Al Jazeera Watch Al Jazeera Watch Al Jazeera I’m saying this 3x because their coverage is exceptional, their interviewees are top class, their access is above and beyond any random posh Brit pondering the Middle East on the basis of *zero* knowledge. Watch Al Jazeera
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Isidlamlilo is a one-woman play about untold angles of the black-on-black violence that engulfed South African townships in the apartheid era 👇
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Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater written by director Neil Coppen and actor Mpume Mthombeni on at the Mannie Manim, Market Theatre until next Sunday. It’s startling, stunning theatre exploring invisible South African lives and gives one such woman a platform. https://t.co/6molH9Qbcc
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Let’s rock this chilly morning. Excellent interviews lined up w authors @MoraboMorojele @meganshead also talking #empatheatre with @neilcoppen and @mpumimthombeni but first time to fly @SAfmRadio 0700-10h00
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#SAfmJSB Guest Presenter Dr Dylan McGarry joins @MichConstant to speak Environmental Education, visual art, theatre and social sculpture with his guests @neilcoppen and @mpumemthombeni
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Isidlamlilo/ The Fire Eater by Neil Coppen and Mpume Mthombeni, now at the Market Theatre, makes dead time visible and explicable. The dead and flat time of apartheid takes real, complicated form in the story the two characters, played by Mpume Mthomben...
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Isidlamlilo/ The Fire Eater by Neil Coppen and Mpume Mthombeni, now at the Market Theatre, makes dead time visible and explicable. The dead and flat time of apartheid takes real, complicated form in...
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Here is my reflection on Isidlamlilo, an important piece of theatre given that highlights our need to keep fighting. Otherwise we risk the fate of erasure. Make time to go watch it @MarketTheatre The show closes on the 6th August. #MadibaSays
https://t.co/TN6loUqnG5
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Mpume Mthombeni. Picture: Val Adamson There is an unfortunate tendency in South Africa’s retelling of history to erase the role of Black women in the revolution. Due to the patriarchal lens through…
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#Theatre review: Isidlamlilo - The Fire Eater at @MarketTheatre "This is not a play that you enjoy; it is a piece you are affected by." https://t.co/ByqaSjAeXx
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By BRUCE DENNILL Isidlamlilo: The Fire Eater / Directed by Neil Coppen / Mannie Manim Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg Coming out of the theatre after a performance of Isidlamli...
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