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…
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The Old Man and the Sea: Sailing safe waters
Machismo is so passe. Activities such as bullfighting, drinking, arm wrestling, fishing are no longer to be revered, or be written about except in terms of irony or disapproval. It’s only natural. There has been too much blood and killing, conquest and destruction in a world teetering on the edge of annihilation. Too much of…
The Bookbinder: Sometimes you have to break a leg to make an omelette
The power of a fairy tale is that good always triumphs. No matter how many times you have to read the same story to your child their psyche needs the reassurance of safety provided by the story. The Bookbinder’s apprentice is a hero’s journey is to heal the broken part of himself and the hole…
Moonless: A trick of the light
It’s strange to call a play involving the death of a child, suicide, and self-imposed isolation sweet. But that’s the most apt description of Moonless, and it’s an ambiguous one. ‘Sweet’ is generally not a theatrical aspiration. Perhaps, given the subject matter in Moonless, this is quite an achievement, particularly as it is rather well-made.…
The Mother of All Eating: Food of the revolutionary gods
Why do we still struggle to understand civil war in South Africa? How do we fail to link these donga-riddled roads of Makhanda with inequality, townships and extreme wealth, to the simple facts of violence and the rabid dispossession of wealth and life opportunity by the ruling elites? One answer lies in … well lies…