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Profile: Castaways – Hitting the sweet spot

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

La Ronde serves up the sexual merry-go-round

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

Tag: Andrew Buckland

The Ugly Noo Noo: Astounding cricket capers remain contemporary
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The Ugly Noo Noo: Astounding cricket capers remain contemporary

Steve Kretzmann 2nd August 2024

There were probably few, if any, people who, when they gave The Ugly Noo Noo a standing ovation in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, thought it could be even … Read More

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Firefly: Evanescent beauty
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Firefly: Evanescent beauty

Steve Kretzmann 11th April 2022

The N1 is a long road, dry too, mostly. Although recently there’s green in those Free State grasses and on the peppercorn koppies. Grass even in the Karoo, faded blonde … Read More

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Playwright profile: Will Harding the aesthete
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Playwright profile: Will Harding the aesthete

Steve Kretzmann 5th May 2020

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

Steve Kretzmann 7th September 2015

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

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Reviews Theatre

On ‘Tobacco’, and its cure for the heart

Steve Kretzmann 29th May 2015

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

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Hedda Gabler: Signposted to the end

Steve Kretzmann 18th May 2025Comment on Hedda Gabler: Signposted to the end

From the start, as Rolanda Marais enters in black lycra shorts, black stiletto heels, black blazer, and covered head to heel in a black veil, it was clear what we … Read More

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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

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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

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Steve Kretzmann 24th June 2025

La Ronde serves up the sexual merry-go-round

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

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