It’s oh so ugly! ASTRID STARK reviews A concoction of greed, lust for power, and anarchy, lead to madness and murder in one of the Bard’s most tragic of tragedies. King Lear, Graham Weir, is ready to hand over his Kingdom to his three daughters, but petulantly forces the three to declare, and prove, their [...]
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STUFFED WITH LUST, LIES AND LAUGHS AN ABSOLUTE TURKEY. Now here is a classic French farcical romp that will have you in stitches from beginning to end. Three couples’ lives unexpectedly collide. It is all smoke and mirrors with these guys as they flaunt their flimsy moralities. Their lies and trickery explode all around them [...]
Gone was the giant table groaning under mountains of pancakes, exotically coloured ice-cream, whipped cream, hot chocolate, giant glass bowls of smarties and jelly tots, éclairs and fistfuls of Ferrero Rocher chocolates. This year’s Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards was a greatly toned down affair. If I have to write about the recession again I [...]
Last Band Standing
Posted: March 22, 2012 in Theatre & Event Reviews and InterviewsTags: band survivor, Cape Times, hout bay, South African Music
Band Survivor Hout Bay – First published in Cape Times Kicking off your shoes at a beach bar, sipping on an ice cold beer and listening to young, enthusiastic and upcoming local bands thrashing it out on the stage is a pretty cool way to end a working day. And, you get to do this [...]
Theatre is for the birds. I have been feeling a little bit disheartened (bored to distraction) by some of the recent theatrical productions in Cape Town. Maynardville’s presentation of Comedy of Errors keeps jumping into my head. What a calamitous romp through Shakespeare and Kung Fu. I so wish I did not have to witness [...]
Theatre review: Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act Walking out of the theatre after this performance it felt as if I had been hit in the guts with a cricket bat. Athol Fugard’s Statement, is to the devout theatre lover what biking from Cairo to Cape Town is to the avid cyclist, or [...]
Musical review: Big Boys don’t Dance
Posted: December 23, 2011 in Theatre & Event Reviews and InterviewsTags: Cape Town
Big Boys Don’t Dance. It has been a long year. Who is not in need of rambunctious laughter, an easy plot to follow and lots of loud and hearty music dished out with impressive bits of dancing? This show offers all of that and a dash of slapstick to keep it all going. Bradley and [...]
Theatre review: OFFBEAT BROADWAY 4 – Older, fatter, slower.
Posted: October 21, 2011 in Theatre & Event Reviews and InterviewsHigh energy time-travel through Broadway musicals. Watching this trio unleash their satirical humour and musical genius onto the audience is like being hurtled along a roller-coaster of hysterical laughter and intense nostalgia. The threesome call Offbeat Broadway 4: older, fatter, slower, but they are certainly not acting their ages. For nearly two hours Anton Luitingh, [...]
Calling all individuals, companies and NGO’s involved in film, theatre, music, visual art, literature and dance in South Africa. Have you a story, incident, or comment, to share with regards to constraints of freedom of expression – especially in the arts sector? Or are you and/or your organisation working towards promoting or defending human rights? [...]
Music review: Minnie & Johnsonshow
Posted: October 16, 2011 in Theatre & Event Reviews and InterviewsTags: Beefcakes, Cape Town Theatre review, Godfrey Johnson
They’re back!! THE MINNIE AND JOHNSON SHOW. With Emile Minnie and Godfrey Johnson. At Beefcakes, Somerset Road, Green Point. When Godfrey Johnson and Emile Minnie get together on stage for the first time they bring with them a wealth of talent, good humour, enthusiasm and experience. Their show is a potpourri of English and [...]
