Theatre Arts • Methodist Church Hall • Cnr Milton Road and Wesley Street • Observatory • 7925 • Cape Town

Body Politic 16 : Skin

solo comedy
Curated by Louise WESTERHOUT
16L

Body Politic loves works in progress and is now in its 16th iteration as a beloved space in which the artistic community can nurture work that is non institutional but also anti establishment! It's become a well-loved safe queer normative and inclusive space where artists come to try out their piece, to risk mistakes and to research in real time with their audience. This provides so much opportunity for us all to engage with work as process and not product.

If you are an artist and this excites you, and you have ideas to work out, then please email Louise on weezawest@gmail.com before 26/1/2026 about your idea and how we can make it happen for you.

Founded in 2018 by Louise Westerhout BODY POLITIC is an informal Live Art event which illuminates ways performing artists address their bodies' complicity with, or resistance to, dominant social ideologies and structures. So far the work of over 75 local and international performance artists has been showcased including Lorin Sookool, Kaulana Williams, Amy Louise Wilson, Qondiswa James, Kanya Viljoen, Lungile Lallie, Genna Gardini, Lukhanyiso Skosana, Kopano Maroga. Naledi Majola, Nadine McKenzie, Themba Mbuli, Kanya Viljoen.