This October, we hosted a group from South Africans

Our project director, Adrian Locher, the founding director of award-winning theatre company, “Taurus Voice”, had visited  Johannesburg where he initiated the drama project at the Huddleston Centre in Sophiatown. This launched a group of twenty-eight unemployed youths on a one-year leadership programme.

A very important part of this was their first experience outside South Africa, when sixteen of them came to the ASHA Centre to complete their drama project.  This was then be performed at St Martin’s in the Fields, London, The Grange and The Picturedrome in Gloucester before returning to tour in their various townships and communities back home.

“The programme aims to rekindle the lively and creative spirit of Sophiatown before the apartheid government bulldozed it into the white suburb”, Triomf.  

These young black and coloured youths have the opportunity to become leaders in the newly emerging society of South Africa. They have been selected for their leadership qualities and the devised drama will aim to be an expression of their positive and hopeful will for the future within the context of the recent past.