Credits List 

Presenting Company: The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative  

Choreographer: Fana Tshabalala 

Sound Design: Nicho Aphane 

Production Design: Tamara Guhrs 

Dramaturge: PJ Sabbagha 

Performers: 

Bongumusa Gumede 

Promise Mosoma 

Sandile Masina 

Phulusho Khwiyane 

Sizwe Samukelo Shabangu 

Gugu Mhlabane 

Phethile Sibiya 

Andile Mncina 

Lebogang Masango 

The work is performed by FATC learners/ interns and graduates.

Funders and Support 

The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative acknowledges The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and the National Arts Council for their ongoing support of its training programmes. 

The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative  

The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative (FATC) is a rurally based South African arts organisation with a 30-year history of creating innovative, socially engaged performance work while nurturing artistic talent in underserved communities. Based at the Ebhudlweni Arts Centre in rural Mpumalanga, FATC has built an international reputation for contemporary dance theatre, public arts festivals and arts activism, with collaborations and touring work across Africa, Europe and beyond. Alongside its acclaimed artistic programme, FATC delivers extensive skills development and training initiatives for children, youth, women and people with disabilities, creating pathways into the creative industries through arts education, mentorship, residencies and community-based cultural programmes. 

Artist Bios 

Fana Tshabalala: Choreographer  

Fana Tshabalala is an internationally recognised South African choreographer, performer and educator whose work spans dance, theatre and interdisciplinary collaboration. He was awarded the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Awardsfor Dance in 2013, received a Visa for Creation residency in 2014, and earned an Outstanding Choreography award in Chicago, Illinois, in 2018. Formerly Associate Artistic Director of The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative, Tshabalala has toured extensively both locally and internationally. 

His acclaimed work Between formed part of Dance Dialogue Africa, touring Germany before travelling to 12 African countries and 14 cities. He has collaborated with artists from Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and worked internationally with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater in Chicago and Lena Dance Company in Sweden. 

Beyond dance performance, Tshabalala has contributed significantly to South African theatre as choreographer and movement director for productions at the Joburg Theatre under Artistic Director James Ngcobo, including Letters from Madiba and A Raisin in the Sun. He is currently co-founder of Broken Borders Arts Project and choreographer for the University of Johannesburg Arts Academy. 

Nicholas Aphane: Sound Designer 

Nicholas Aphane is a performer and maker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He began his training at Dance Factory and later worked with Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaboration under the direction of PJ Sabbagha. A graduate of Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (2010), he has collaborated with internationally renowned choreographer David Zambrano and toured extensively both locally and internationally. 

His artistic practice spans collaborations with a range of artists across contemporary dance, theatre, and experimental performance. He is currently developing and performing his solo work, Bodywave, while continuing his practice as a freelance artist in South Africa. 

PJ Sabbagha: Dramaturge 

PJ Sabbagha is a South African choreographer, whose name has become synonymous with issue-based dance theatre. He is a founding member and Artistic Director of The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative, Managing Director of the Ebhudlweni Arts Center and Artistic Director of the Annual My Body My Space Rural Public Arts Festival. Sabbagha was the recipient of the 2005 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Dance and the 2006 FNB Dance Umbrella (Gauteng MEC for Arts and Culture) award for Best Choreography for his work, Still Here. In 2005 he was voted top South African Artist and was also placed in the top 10 of The Star Tonight’s annual top 100 South Africans. He was also recognized for his contribution to South African Arts and Culture through his nomination for and participation in the Amstel Salute to Success. He has travelled across the USA, as a guest of the US State Department, as part of the 2007 International Visitors Leadership Program investigating HIV and AIDS and other communicable diseases. In 2017 Sabbagha visited France as a guest of the French Ministry of Culture and Communications as part of a Seminar Focusing Arts and Culture in Service of Community and Territorial Development. Sabbagha’s work has been shown at festivals and theatres across the globe in countries that include Russia, Mexico, Holland, Tanzania, Mali, Mozambique and Taiwan. 

Tamara Guhrs: Designer 

Tamara Guhrs is a writer, theatre-maker, scenographer, educator and cultural manager whose work bridges performance, ecology and social engagement. Raised in Zambia’s South Luangwa region alongside conservation communities, her creative practice is deeply informed by relationships between people, landscape and the more-than-human world. Over the past two decades she has worked across South Africa and Zambia creating participatory theatre, immersive performance and arts education projects for diverse audiences.