NAF 2026 · 26 June — 4 July · You Should Go In · Call Me A Diva · Love Me Feed Me Never Leave Me

New theatre.
New voices.

✦ The mission

Origen Productions makes new South African theatre — and gives new South African talent the stage to show what they can do.

Founded 2022Cape Town basedNew writingFestival circuitNew voices
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NAF 2026 26 June — 4 July · Makhanda

Three shows
at the festival.

Origen returns to the National Arts Festival with three productions across the festival's ten days — a new drama from Emma Amber and Harley Ferguson making its festival debut, the Standard Bank Ovation Award-winning Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me, and a glamorous new cabaret stepping out for the first time.

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New for 2026

You Should Go In

A moving, deeply human drama about family, abandonment, forgiveness, and the emotional cost of unfinished conversations — written by Emma Amber, directed by Harley Ferguson.

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New for 2026

Call Me A Diva

A glamorous, high-energy cabaret honouring the iconic women of music — sequins, sass, soaring high notes, and a love letter to the divas who set the gold standard.

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Returning

Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me

A funny, heartwarming, uncomfortably honest play about love, loss, longing, and the impossible business of finding the person you're meant to spend the rest of your life with.

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✦ Productions

Five years.
Thirteen seasons.

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2026
4 seasons
First Date The Musical poster
First Date The Musical
Avalon Theatre
Cape Town
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You Should Go In
Masambe Theatre at the Baxter · Masonic Front at the National Arts Festival
Cape Town · Makhanda
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Call Me A Diva
Beethoven Room at the National Arts Festival
Makhanda
Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me poster
Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me
Masonic Front at the National Arts Festival
Makhanda
2025
3 seasons
Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me poster
Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me
National Arts Festival · Theatre Arts
Makhanda · Cape Town
The Jingle Belles poster
The Jingle Belles
Theatre On The Square
Joburg
Who Done Did It poster
Who Done Did It
Theatre Arts · Koelkamers · Drama Factory
Cape Town · Paternoster · Somerset West
2024
3 seasons
The Marvelous Wonderettes poster
The Marvelous Wonderettes
Koelkamers · The Drama Factory
Paternoster · Somerset West
Trial & Error poster
Trial & Error
Masambe Theatre · Redhill Arts Festival
Cape Town · Joburg
The Jingle Belles poster
The Jingle Belles
The Drama Factory · Grand Daddy Hotel
Somerset West · Cape Town
2023
2 seasons
Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me poster
Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me
Theatre Arts · Drama Factory · Redhill Arts Festival
Cape Town · Somerset West · Joburg
The Marvelous Wonderettes poster
The Marvelous Wonderettes
Redhill Arts Festival · Theatre On The Square
Joburg · Joburg
2022
1 season
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The Marvelous Wonderettes
Theatre Arts · Galloway Theatre
Cape Town · Cape Town

Numbers.

2022 — Present
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Years on the road
2025
Standard Bank Ovation Award
Love Me Feed Me Never Leave Me
2023
2 × Fleur du Cap nominations
The Marvelous Wonderettes
✦ Beyond the stage
Documentary

The Wonderer

A feature documentary on the life and work of Ingrid Nuss.

Watch on Vimeo
Film

48 Hour Film Festival

Recurring participation in the international 48 Hour Film Project — writing, shooting and cutting a short film inside a single weekend.

✦ Press

What they're
saying.

“A stylish courtroom drama and psychological thriller.”
The Cape Robyn Trial & Error
“Engrossing, hard-hitting drama.”
The Cape Robyn You Should Go In
“Clever, sharp, delicious.”
The Cape Robyn Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me
“Funny, insightful and moving. A magnifying glass into modern relationships and dating. A must see!”
Savannah Dawson Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me
“One of the best shows I’ve ever watched. Comedic, yet emotionally vulnerable.”
Audience review Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me
“Law as theatre.”
Broadway World SA Trial & Error