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Profile: Castaways – Hitting the sweet spot

Profile: Khongolose Khommanding Khomissars – The khorrupt get their just desserts

Hedda Gabler: Signposted to the end

A Doll’s House, Part 2: Hard act to follow

Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

Month: November 2021

Beautiful World, Where are You: Indeed
Literature

Beautiful World, Where are You: Indeed

Steve Kretzmann 29th November 2021

Intimate, is one way to describe Sally Rooney’s latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You. There are only four characters: close friends Alice and Eileen, and the men with whom … Read More

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Comedian covers himself in gore
Film

Comedian covers himself in gore

Steve Kretzmann 3rd November 2021

One of Cape Town’s favourite comedians has become a power-drill-wielding killer. Rob van Vuuren, known for extracting belly laughs from the audience with his tales of family life and acting … Read More

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Harlem Shuffle: The art of not breaking
Literature

Harlem Shuffle: The art of not breaking

Steve Kretzmann 3rd November 2021

Is it possible for a person with a modicum of ambition to be straight in a crooked world? This may be the central question of Colson Whitehead’s tenth novel, Harlem … Read More

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Theatre

A Doll’s House, Part 2: Hard act to follow

Steve Kretzmann 5th May 2025Comment on A Doll’s House, Part 2: Hard act to follow

Rejecting her husband’s disparagement, Nora Helmer walks out the door, leaving him and two small children behind. That was the final scene of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, first performed … Read More

Theatre

Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

Steve Kretzmann 1st March 2025Comment on Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

Of course Jamie-Lee Money is on a stationary bike at the start of the show, it’s the premise of her one-hander, spelled out in the title: Spin Cycles. For the … Read More

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Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

Steve Kretzmann 27th February 2025Comment on Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

All we want to say is: billionaires, like Musk and his fellow Trump bootlickers, must just vokof to Mars. Also: having a good time while being kind is an act … Read More

Literature

The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

Steve Kretzmann 20th December 2024Comment on The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

The fourth sentence is cliched and the second sentence has a contradiction in the tenses. This is the kind of thing that happens when you have to self publish because … Read More

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Steve Kretzmann 18th May 2025

Hedda Gabler: Signposted to the end

Steve Kretzmann 5th May 2025

A Doll’s House, Part 2: Hard act to follow

Steve Kretzmann 1st March 2025

Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

Steve Kretzmann 27th February 2025

Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

Steve Kretzmann 20th December 2024

The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

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