Cottonwool Kid: Clown’s up to scratch
Toni Morkel provides a mix of introspection and humour that pulls the curtain aside on childhood anxiety Childhood, with its constant bombardment of the new, its lack of understanding of … Read More
Author: Steve Kretzmann
Moffie: a near perfect reminder of indomitability
Following an acclaimed London run, this South African story needs to be seen at the Baxter There were sergeants in the apartheid army who could bark out 30 or more … Read More
National film foundation falters as leadership instability continues
The National Film and Video Foundation’s (NFVF) sixth CEO since March 2023 was appointed on Monday. At a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee meeting last week questions were raised about the procedures … Read More
Unruly: Man apes ape
Walking casually to the stage, on which some of the audience – proscenium arch abandoned – sit in chairs arranged in a circle, Andrew Buckland steps under the lights as … Read More
La Ronde serves up the sexual merry-go-round
A play with sexual encounters as its premise is likely to read very differently today, than it did when first written in 1897. Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde (orginally Reigen in … Read More