Incubator Trade Fair: The nation’s contorted reflection
A score or so of Market Theatre workers were toyi-toying beneath the theatre’s iconic awning on Monday last week. It was a hot Joburg day and they couldn’t be blamed … Read More
Month: September 2018
In Her Shoes: Stepping through the pain
The haunting strains of Bra Hugh Masekela’s Stimela playing through the sound system as we gathered to watch In Her Shoes at the Market Theatre seemed a strange choice for … Read More
Songs of the Soil: More brimstone than fire
You’ve got to like Gospel for this one. Even then, I’m not sure. Songs of the Soil is a musical, but the thing with musicals is that there needs to … Read More
Angola: Skeletons in the spotlight
The torture and murder of Umkhonto we Sizwe soldiers, carried out by their own ANC comrades in Angolan training camps, and particularly the infamous Quadro rehabilitation camp during the anti-apartheid … Read More
Scars: Gender, bashed
Lead dancer Tsulile Binda enters upstage right with slow magnificence, dressed in a glittering silver gown, distored by cords trailing from her waist. It emerges the cords are attached to … Read More