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Profile: Castaways – Hitting the sweet spot

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

La Ronde serves up the sexual merry-go-round

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

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National Arts Festival battles to get much-need lottery funding
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National Arts Festival battles to get much-need lottery funding

Steve Kretzmann 13th June 2024

One of the major funders of arts and culture organisations in the country, the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), has declined to provide funding for the National Arts Festival (NAF), which … Read More

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Cold times for artists
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Cold times for artists

Steve Kretzmann 30th May 2020

Our artists who entertain us and create meaning in our world are thrown into poverty as government dallies After losing all their income as theatres and performance venues shut down … Read More

Department of Sports Arts and CultureNathi MthethwaRelief fund 3 Comments on Cold times for artists
NAF 2020: The (virtual) revolution is here
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NAF 2020: The (virtual) revolution is here

Steve Kretzmann 4th April 2020

Of all the things that will be different in a post Covid-19 world, the National Arts Festival is likely to be one of them. Judging from the plans and approach … Read More

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New National Arts Festival CEO has a few bolts to tighten
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New National Arts Festival CEO has a few bolts to tighten

Mike Loewe 6th March 2020

Monica Newton, the brand new National Arts Festival CEO, says the decline of fringe audiences and the water crisis in Makhanda are the two big problems facing the 46th rendition … Read More

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City policies choke arts and culture initiatives

Steve Kretzmann 2nd August 2019

The Events By-law ‘one-size fits all’ approach makes life difficult for smaller organisations trying to do good work. Frustration with the City’s funding procedures and event permit policies have been … Read More

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Hedda Gabler: Signposted to the end

Steve Kretzmann 18th May 2025Comment on Hedda Gabler: Signposted to the end

From the start, as Rolanda Marais enters in black lycra shorts, black stiletto heels, black blazer, and covered head to heel in a black veil, it was clear what we … Read More

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

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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

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Steve Kretzmann 24th June 2025

La Ronde serves up the sexual merry-go-round

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

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