Selected Works.

Contemporary classics which Lara has directed include:

​

· Peter Schaffers’ Equus (Market Theatre/Wits, 1991)

· Athol Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye (Market Theatre, 1994)

· Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (Market Theatre, 1995)

· Samuel Beckett’s End Game (Market Theatre, 1997)

· Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (Grahamstown Main, Baxter Theatre, 2002)

· Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire (2003)

· Peter Schaffer’s Amadeus (Baxter Theatre, 2007)

· Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (Baxter Theatre 2007)

· Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck (Baxter Theatre 2010)

 

New South African work which Lara has directed include:

​

· Paul Slabolepszy’s The return of Elvis Du Pissanie (National Tour, 1993 - 1995)

· Fordsburgs’ Finest (Market Theatre, 1998)

· Sue Pam Grant and DJ Grant’s Take the Floor (Market Theatre and International Tour, 1994 - 1995)

· Marc Lottering’s Aunty Merle, The Musical (2018)

· Marc Lottering’s Aunty Merle, It’s a Girl (2019)

· Marc Lottering’s Aunty Merle – Things Get Real (2022)

​

New South African plays which Lara has written and directed, include:

​

· Tshepang (2003)

· Hear and Now (2006)

· Reach (2007)

· Karoo Moose (2007)

· Solomon and Marion (2010)

· Fishers of Hope (2014)

· The Inconvenience of Wings (2017)

Plays which Lara has co-created include:

· Reggies Roaring Roadshow (National Tour, 1993 – 1994)

· Womb Tide (Market Theatre, 1995)

· Ma Gents (North West Arts Council, 1998)

· The Well Being with Andrew Buckland and Lionel Newton (Market Theatre and International Tour, 1999 –2001)

​

Adaptations include:

​

• Charles Dickens’ Scrooge (Baxter Theatre 2013)

· Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying: 1999 Market Theatre, Amsterdam; 2021, Baxter Theatre

· JM Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K: 2019 Teater der Welt Festival, Dusseldorf Schauspielhaus, Baxter Theatre

· William Shakespeare’s Othello: 2022 Dusseldorf Schauspielhaus

​

Executive Producer credits include:

​

Mies Julie (toured over 30 cities internationally and won several awards)

The Fall (toured South Africa and the Edinburg Fringe Festival winning awards)

 

Lara has worked throughout South Africa and has toured internationally with many of have productions.

Her international tours include:

​

Mooi Street Moves (1993) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | Cochrane Theatre, London

Take the Floor (1995) Centaur Theatre, Canada | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

En Helt Vanlig Familj (2000) Stockholm Stadsteatern, Stockholm (A Swedish adaptation of Lara Foot’s Womb Tide)

The Well Being (2000) Zuiderpershuis, Belgium; Edinburgh | Stockholm Stadsteatern, Stockholm | West End, London | Canada and New York

 

Ways of Dying (2000) Tropical Institute, Amsterdam

Womb Tide (2002) Tropical Institute, Amsterdam

 

Tshepang (2003 - 2107) Tropical Institute, Grahamstown; Market Theatre,

Johannesburg; Vienna Festival; Gate Theatre, Ireland; Brisbane Theatre, Australia; Toronto/Montreal, Canada; Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland

Reach (2007) Baxter Theatre, South Africa; Theaterderformen Festival, Hanover, Germany

 

Solomon and Marion (2010) Baxter Theatre; Kennedy Centre, USA; Print Room London, Birmingham Rep, UK; Edinburgh Festival

Fishers of Hope (Tawaret) Baxter Theatre, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria; State

Theatre, Pretoria, South Africa; 18th Internationale Schillertage, Mannheim, Germany; Playhouse Theatre, Durban, South Africa

The Inconvenience of Wings Baxter Theatre, National Arts Festival Grahamstown, Edinburgh Festival

Life & Times of Michael K (2021 - 2023) Opening of the Teater der Welt Festival, Düsseldorf

Germany; Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Germany; Baxter Theatre, South Africa; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Galway Festival, Ireland; Edinburgh Assembly Festival, Scotland; St Ann’s’ Warehouse, New York, US

Othello (2022 -2024) Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Germany; Baxter Theatre, South Africa