it's how we tell our stories.
it's how we tell our stories.
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All our productions are available for stage licensing, institutional screenings, corporate bookings, and educational use. Each comes with performance rights, production notes, and direct creative support from the Bcoz Wow team.
Theatre · ★ Standard Bank Ovation Award 2021
"Every performance is an act of resistance and a call for change." — Mbali Ndlozi
National Arts Festival Fringe · Vavasati International Festival · HerStory International Theatre · Roodepoort Theatre
Theatre · World Premiere · UJ Arts & Culture · 2026
Step into a Johannesburg kitchen where two men confront the delicate dynamics of friendship, desire, and expectation. Through humour, tension, and raw honesty, the play examines performed masculinity, subtle homophobia, and the quiet emotional labour that shapes modern relationships. A bold, intimate exploration of love, identity, and the labour of being truly seen.
Written & Directed by Mbali Ndlozi · Dramaturgy by Sami Maseko · In collaboration with the National Arts Council (NAC) & PESP6
Short Film · 16 min · English & isiZulu · NAF Fringe
A man stands accused. The justice system becomes the force determined to swallow him. Gripping, psychological, necessary. Performed by Thabang Mooley and Talent Biyela. Available for gender justice screenings, educational licensing, and facilitated discussion sessions.
Written & Directed by Mbali Ndlozi · Produced by Nwabisa Mbambo · Xiluva Collective × UnrecArt
Limited edition pieces inspired by What We Bring to the Table. Each design carries a line from the show — worn close to the skin, carried into the world.
How to Order
Send us the piece name, size & your delivery address.
We courier nationally — delivered to your door, anywhere in South Africa.
Delivered Nationally
Order via WhatsApp or email — we courier nationally to your door, anywhere in South Africa.
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A Spotify channel operating on its own frequency — the queer one. The Velvet Free-Queer-ncy is a home for queer voices, queer stories, and queer ways of knowing that get crowded out everywhere else. Soft where it needs to be. Sharp where it has to be. Unapologetically itself.
Created and produced by Mbali Ndlozi under Bcoz Wow — part of a broader commitment to building visible, dignified, joyful queer media in South Africa.
♪ Listen on SpotifyThe channel is the home. The works are what live inside it.
Between Pixels & Heartbeats
An audio drama navigating the space between technology and human connection — where the digital world presses against the most tender parts of being alive.
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Workshop · Available to Book
A creative writing workshop created specifically for queer bodies and women — two groups whose experience of intimacy has been consistently written about rather than written by. This is the space where that changes.
What It Is
A facilitated creative writing experience exploring how we write about bodies, desire, vulnerability, and identity — from the inside. Participants leave with original work and a new relationship to their own voice.
Who It's For
Queer bodies and women. A brave space — not a safe space — brave enough to hold the full complexity of those identities and the intimacy they carry.
Format
Half-day or full-day. In-person (Johannesburg) or online. Facilitated by Mbali Ndlozi. Maximum 20 participants.
Intimacy is not just romantic. It is the body in language. What we allow ourselves to describe, to name, to claim. This workshop creates conditions for participants to write the things they haven't been given permission to write.
Book This WorkshopBcoz Wow is available for corporate engagements, school programmes, organisational partnerships, and community events. We bring the work — you bring the room.
Corporate
Transform your team engagement with work that challenges, connects, and stays with people. Part performance, part conversation — entirely impossible to forget.
What We Bring to the Table — live performance + debrief
Gender equity screenings + facilitated discussion
Creative leadership workshops
Diversity & inclusion storytelling sessions
Schools & Universities
South African stories belong in South African classrooms. Live theatre, film screenings, and writing workshops — curriculum-aligned and creatively alive.
Theatre for Life Orientation & Dramatic Arts
Film screening + discussion: Not All Men Are Trash
Creative writing workshops for learners
Career talks: South African creative industries
Organisations & NGOs
We partner with organisations doing work in gender justice, queer rights, mental health, and community development — bringing arts in as a tool for reflection and mobilisation.
Izibazi Zomendo — healing & GBV contexts
Writing Intimacy Workshop — queer & women's orgs
Bespoke storytelling commissions
Community screenings with post-show facilitation
Festivals & Venues
All Bcoz Wow productions are available for theatrical licensing. We work with festivals, venues, and producing theatres to bring these works to new audiences.
Full production licensing with creative support
Co-production partnerships welcome
Festival licensing — KKNK, Grahamstown & more
International touring enquiries welcome
The act of
showing up.
Built by hand,
played in full.
At the centre
of everything.
"We exist to make important South African stories visible, understandable, and impossible to ignore."
Bcoz Wow (Pty) Ltd is a Johannesburg-based creative studio founded by director, writer, and facilitator Mbali Ndlozi. We produce theatre, short film, audio drama, and creative workshops. We build platforms for African creatives. We go where the stories are.
Licensing, bookings, corporate enquiries, collaborations, press — reach out directly.
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