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
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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
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
Mad struggle for power
22.02.2015 What constitutes normality is a humanities discussion so hackneyed it is open to scorn and derision. It is an area of intellectual parlour debate graduate students cynically sneer at, … Read More
Tobacco, and the Harmful Effects Thereof: Beautiful, beautiful Tobacco
The man, weighed down with innumerable petty responsibilities, driven to madness through lack of affirmation, lack of love and a thousand daily darts of dismissal and scorn, is one we … Read More