Magnet Theatre
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| PBO with NPO status | |
| Genre | physical theatre, youth development |
| Founded | 1987 in Cape Town, South Africa |
| Founders | Mark Fleishman, Jennie Reznek |
| Headquarters | Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa |
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Key people
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Mark Fleishman, Jennie Reznek, Mandla Mbothwe, Margie Pankhurst, Neo Muyanga, Craig Leo |
| Website | magnettheatre |
Magnet Theatre is an independent physical theatre company based in Cape Town, South Africa. Magnet Theatre was formed in 1987. Besides creating original theatre productions, Magnet Theatre is actively engaged in youth development work in the Cape Town area as well as in the Cederberg Municipality. The company's founders and artistic directors are Mark Fleishman and Jennie Reznek.
Magnet Theatre was founded in 1987 to produce Cheap Flights (director: Roz Monat), starring Reznek. It re-emerged in 1991 to produce The Show's Not over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings (director: Mark Fleishman), again starring Reznek. The show toured nationally and internationally for two and a half years.
In 1994, Magnet Theatre returned to South Africa. For the next few years, the company focused mainly on its professional theatre productions. These included eight collaborations with Cape Town-based Jazzart Dance Theatre between 1994 and 2007 (including Medea, Rain in a Dead Man's Footprints, and Cargo); stage adaptations of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1994) and Mia Couto's Voices Made Night (2000/01); two performance pieces with Jennie Reznek (1997/2002); and four outdoor productions between 1998 and 2011.
In 1998, Magnet Theatre established the Magnet Theatre Educational Trust dedicating itself to training and developing skills for impoverished and marginalised youth.
In 2001, Magnet Theatre initiated several youth development projects in addition to its theatre and performance productions. These include the Clanwilliam Arts Project (since 2001); the Community Groups Intervention in Khayelitsha (2002-2007); the Community Arts Development in Clanwilliam (since 2007, which grew out of the Clanwilliam Arts Project); the Culture Gangs Project (since 2011); and the Farm Schools Project (since 2014).
In 2006, Magnet Theatre produced Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking (director: Mark Fleishman) for the African Festival of Youth and Children's Theatre. The piece about refugees in Africa subsequently toured five continents from 2007-2014. It was part of a focus on migration which included works in isiXhosa and Afrikaans: ingcwaba lendoda lise cankwe ndlela (2009) and Inxeba Lomphilisi (2010), both directed by Mandla Mbothwe, and Die Vreemdeling (director: Mark Fleishman).
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