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
Tag: Baxter Theatre
Hansard: edge-of-your-seat repartee
Fiona Ramsay and Graham Hopkins are a racy duo. Phenomenal. Hitting 90 miles an hour around the turns in their repartee. The comebacks and self deprecations fast and furious, going … Read More
Firefly: Evanescent beauty
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
Life & Times of Michael K: Literally epic
When JM Coetzee wrote Life & Times of Michael K, South Africa was a very different country. It was the beginning of apartheid’s last gasp, the state doing all it … Read More
Snapped: Grief isn’t pretty
To take a young version of yourself – as a child, perhaps – and hold them. Just hold them, and say sorry. Therein lies the poetry within the sentimental postcard … Read More