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Profile: Castaways – Hitting the sweet spot

Profile: Khongolose Khommanding Khomissars – The khorrupt get their just desserts

Hedda Gabler: Signposted to the end

A Doll’s House, Part 2: Hard act to follow

Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

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The Lesson: A collective fever
Reviews Theatre

The Lesson: A collective fever

David Mann 22nd October 2022

It’s all heat and burgeoning mania on the Mannie Manim stage. The rain is late to Johannesburg this year and the city has become unbearably hot and dry. Still, we … Read More

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A father is born: More selfie than self portrait
Literature Reviews

A father is born: More selfie than self portrait

Steve Kretzmann 26th September 2022

Given the prevalence of social media, this obsession with propagating a curated image of oneself appears to have seeped into other aspects of our lives, and our creative endeavours. In … Read More

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Risking it all: For fans only
Literature Reviews

Risking it all: For fans only

Steve Kretzmann 29th August 2022

Opinions on billionaires – their very existence, that is – tend to be polarised. People either worship them or despise them. Those who worship them, read their books (ghost written, … Read More

Elon MuskMark Vlismas Comment on Risking it all: For fans only
Snapped: Grief isn’t pretty
Reviews Theatre

Snapped: Grief isn’t pretty

Steve Kretzmann 22nd September 2021

To take a young version of yourself – as a child, perhaps – and hold them. Just hold them, and say sorry. Therein lies the poetry within the sentimental postcard … Read More

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Core Dump: Future Memories
Film Reviews

Core Dump: Future Memories

Sarah Roberson 21st July 2021

You are reading this on your smart device. These words, published online thanks to the World Wide Web. The letters appear here courtesy of my Lenovo laptop. We’re connected by … Read More

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Theatre

A Doll’s House, Part 2: Hard act to follow

Steve Kretzmann 5th May 2025Comment on A Doll’s House, Part 2: Hard act to follow

Rejecting her husband’s disparagement, Nora Helmer walks out the door, leaving him and two small children behind. That was the final scene of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, first performed … Read More

Theatre

Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

Steve Kretzmann 1st March 2025Comment on Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

Of course Jamie-Lee Money is on a stationary bike at the start of the show, it’s the premise of her one-hander, spelled out in the title: Spin Cycles. For the … Read More

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Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

Steve Kretzmann 27th February 2025Comment on Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

All we want to say is: billionaires, like Musk and his fellow Trump bootlickers, must just vokof to Mars. Also: having a good time while being kind is an act … Read More

Literature

The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

Steve Kretzmann 20th December 2024Comment on The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

The fourth sentence is cliched and the second sentence has a contradiction in the tenses. This is the kind of thing that happens when you have to self publish because … Read More

Stay in the News

Steve Kretzmann 18th May 2025

Hedda Gabler: Signposted to the end

Steve Kretzmann 5th May 2025

A Doll’s House, Part 2: Hard act to follow

Steve Kretzmann 1st March 2025

Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

Steve Kretzmann 27th February 2025

Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

Steve Kretzmann 20th December 2024

The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

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