Samthing Soweto: Stretching time
“I’m not ready for this. Yho! I’m not ready for this,” annouced a young woman pacing outside the Alma Cafe in apparent mild distress yesterday. It later turned out she … Read More
Month: September 2017
Steke: A few loose threads
Steke has a promising start: playful and offbeat and quite quirky. The performers have talent. Saree van Coppenhagen and Boitumelo Mohutsioa won best female actresses at the inaugural Arts Incubator Trade … Read More
The Champion: A powerful punch
The protagonist in The Champion is not a nice guy. Yet Khayalethu Anthony, who wrote the script and acts as Thulani in this hard-hitting one-hander, is able to make us … Read More
In Whorefish Bloomers: The Waitresses’ Lament: Take a Taste
Riding on the Greyhound down to Cape Town a few days ago had me remembering when I bussed down +- fifteen years ago to the Mother City, the City of … Read More
Shack attack: Unchained SA story will rattle your gilded cage
Mandisi Sindo, 28, says he is the artistic director of “the only shack theatre in the history of SA”. This is a grand statement, and today he might just be … Read More