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
Tag: James Cairns
Kiffness and plays with a few kinks
TEENS and some oldies rocked Saturday night away to the unique crossover electro-jazz sound of The Kiffness at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Know for their electronic pop, The … Read More
The Devil & Billy Markham: Bad boy Billy is good
A lifetime of hard living has left Billy Markham rough and ragged, inside and out. Billy’s not rotten to the core but he’s no angel. Why resist the silver-tongued devil’s … Read More
Well you know you are going to cry, don’t you?
Kitchen table crit: Snow Goose [wpdevart_youtube]kBCwDxhnMXg[/wpdevart_youtube] Programme notes here Snow Goose stars James Cairns and Taryn Bennett, directed by Jenine Collocott. #NAF2015
Sharpen the carving knife
Children’s tales and rhymes, far from depicting the innocent carefree world we long for, use metaphor and symbolism to introduce the reality that exists beyond the cosseted clime of the … Read More