Playwright profile: Will Harding the aesthete
South African theatre does not have a strong literary tradition. Most of the work we see on our stages are workshopped or devised, which is a method at which we … Read More
Tag: Toni Morkel
Critter goes Dutch at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival
There’s a bunch of bloody brilliant South Africans performing two plays at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival, an 11-day celebration of innovative theatre in the city of bicycles, canals, and good-looking … Read More
Survival of the sisters
Father, father, father gets a kitchen table crit from Sheena. [wpdevart_youtube]4saOWzVWXyc[/wpdevart_youtube] Programme notes here.
God is in daddy’s basement
Father, Father, Father is deliciously dark. It’s darkly delightful. It’s rambunctious and silly yet stabs stealthily at serious issues. Yep, it’s satire. Oh how I laughed at the three insane … Read More
On ‘Tobacco’, and its cure for the heart
Hesitantly proceeding onto the stage, fumbling with a wooden crate containing his briefcase, in a manner that depicts a nervousness so ingrained it’s become a way of life, Ivan walks … Read More