FTH:K
Based in Cape Town, from the hip: khulumakahle (FTH:K)’s vision is to develop a (r)evolutionary approach to theatre making and theatre education that is equally accessible to Deaf and hearing communities within South Africa.
FTH:K is a young, funky theatre company whose work in integrating Deaf and hearing artists has already won multiple awards. Its aim of revolutionising the South African Theatre industry through the development of Deaf and hearing performer-creators, audiences and educators is best illustrated through its unique Tell-Tale Signs programme which is currently training South Africa’s first generation of Deaf artists for inclusion in the professional performing arts industry.
There is no other project like it (nor has there ever been) running in South Africa. With a long-term dream of establishing South Africa’s only Training and Performance Centre, or Culutre House, that is accessible to both the Deaf and hearing, FTH:K is unique to the South African theatre landscape.
Recent theatre work includes the award-winning GUMBO, Birds’ Eye View (in association with EYE2EYE Productions), Ek Roep vir jou Vanaand, ‘Nuff Sed, Lucky Box, and the acclaimed Water Pockets. The Company has toured extensively in South Africa, to Germany, and will go to Argentina in 2009.
