we like what we write
The first thing when going to see Koningin Lear, is throw your Shakespeare out the window. Or no. Don’t do that. Put it back on the shelf and google the synopsis. It is not King Lear in Afrikaans, it’s an adaptation, a re-imagining, a riot. Freedom from the Elizabethan English allows this play to fly…
Halloween is great and all. Ghoulish. Topsy Turvy. Trick or Treat. Graveyards and cheap liquor. But it’s not a date so much as a time of year. Before winter begins. Winter that the old and infirm may not survive. In this part of the world we should be checking our tickets around 31 May. Then…
Book review: An Orchestra of Minorities, by Chigozie Obiama The cries of all the wounded, oppressed, downtrodden, the enslaved, the wrongfully imprisoned, are raised as if in an orchestra. An orchestra of minorities. It is this identification with the powerless that pulses through the heart of Chigozie Obioma’s magnificent novel. It is an Homeric struggle,…
Two naked lovers on stage involved in the meanderings of post-coital conversation is riqué even as dusk falls on the 2010s. How risqué it was in 1972, when Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act was first staged at The Space in Cape Town, most of us can only guess. What is certain is…
We’ve given in to the fact that summer is now here. What about spring, you ask? This is Cape Town mos, spring is gone already. So if you want to escape the south-easter, the inside of a theatre works.