Innocent Tshimbufe

Tech Swing

Made 6 book flats on site/painted the stage/ assisted the FOH with opening doors/ gave calls to the cast before doors.

Venue Technician
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Decorated venues/rigged lights/patched sound and ran over 7 shows a day.

Stage Manager.

ASKARI an Action-packed political thriller that opened TUT’s theatrical season of 2023. The Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design opened its theatrical season at the Breytenbach Theatre with the action-packed political thriller ASKARI on 25 May (Africa Day). TUT is the first university in Africa to stage the play.
The multiple Naledi Theatre Award-nominated and winning play, which premiered in 2021, tells the story of freedom fighters who were double agents, informers, intelligence analysts and deadly assassins for the Vlakplaas counterinsurgency unit that specialised in executing and torturing anti-apartheid activists.

https://www.tut.ac.za/news-and-press/article?NID=768

Scenic Painter.

Rapture is a production staged at the South African State Theatre based on the sculptures of Anton Smit.

Prop maker.
- Pope Mitre (costume prop)

Materials:
- foam
- tracing paper
- wood glue
- contact glue
- gold dust
- plascon acrylic paint

Set designer &
Stage Technician.

”A LAND OF PERMANENT
GOODBYES”
Based on A powerful novel
of refugees escaping from
war-torn Syria, masterfully
told by a journalist who
witnessed the crisis
firsthand. In a country
ripped apart by war, Tareq
lives with his big and loving
family. . . until the bombs
strike. His city is in ruins.
His life is destroyed. And
those who have survived
are left to figure out their
uncertain future

Assistant Stage Manager.
Set builder.
Scenic painter

Set constructor &
Scenic painter

Prop maker
Set designer
Scenic painter.
Caged tells a story of 5 girls who have been kidnaped/caged and become sex slaves. They are now trying to save the little one (Tinny) from Mr. B the aggressor.

Set Designer.
Scenic Artist.

The artist conceptualized and designed a performance space for a South African adaptation of Ronald Dahl's 'The Enormous crocodile'. The artist used some conventions of Bunraku puppetry during the spacing process.
The artist also painted the Backdrop of the puppet booth using [3] painting techniques:

1. Scumbling
2.Dry brushing
3. Spattering