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
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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
Till Death: Tell it on the mountain
The tradition of male circumcison within South African cultures has come under a lot of scrutiny of late. Every July and December season the media report on injuries, amputations, and … Read More
Trade Fair: Trainees break out of their shells at Market Theatre
Promises are so rarely kept in South Africa that we tend to view them more as suggestions than commitments, but The Market Theatre is being true to its word. The … Read More