LAMTA shines at the 60th Fleur du Cap Awards

Two Luitingh Alexander Musical Theatre Academy (LAMTA) productions excelled at the prestigious 60th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, with Sylvaine Strike winning Best Director for Spring Awakening and Emily Child earning Best Lead Actress in a Play for A Streetcar Named Desire

Staff Reporter|Published 1 week ago

Pictured are Emily Child as Blanche DuBois in LAMTA’s A Streetcar Named Desire alongside LAMTA graduate and Fleur du Cap Theatre Award Best Student nominee in the Best Student category, Dylan Janse van Rensburg, who will be taking the lead in the upcoming Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, his first major role since graduating last year.

Image: Claude Barnardo

At the 60th annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards held at the Cape Town Stadium on Sunday March 23, two Luitingh Alexander Musical Theatre Academy (LAMTA) productions won the coveted accolade with Sylvaine Strike taking Best Director for Spring Awakening and Emily Child winning Best Lead Actress in a Play for A Streetcar Named Desire.

LAMTA graduate Leah Mari scooped the Best Lead Actress in a Musical prize for her role as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady that was directed by Steven Stead with LAMTA’s Anton Luitingh as resident director. Forty-nine plays, musicals and music theatre shows were eligible for the 23 competitive categories, with LAMTA productions receiving a total of nine nominations.

LAMTA’s next show with Pieter Toerien Productions is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, opening at Theatre on the Bay from Friday May 9. Book though Webticket.