Cape Town Fringe: Get experienced
This is the fourth year of the fringe but this time around it’s a whole new beast. The CBD-centric programme is gone and in its stead shows are spread across … Read More
Category: Opinion
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
FRINGE VENUES: Into community, into independence
WE grew up with the slogan “What about the workers?” but Cape Town Fringe (CTF) has been repeatedly regaled with the demand: “What about the townships?” Pretty much one and … Read More
The Fall of the ANC at Open Book: More blood will flow
The intellectual boxing match between Prince Mashele and Charles Nqakula at the Open Book festival’s Fugard Theater main stage yesterday evening provided fascinating insight into the battered politician syndrome. Radio … Read More
Open Book: Imagine a city
Ironically, post-apartheid government policy has reinforced the spatial inequalities in our cities that apartheid shed so much blood to create. This is despite the “massive redistributive investment” to alleviate poverty … Read More