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David Fick Born and bred in South Africa, David is an award-winning arts journalist who has loved theatre since the day he set foot on stage in his preschool nativity play. He graduated with a Master of Arts (Theatre and Performance) degree from the University of Cape Town in 2005, having previously graduated from the same university with a First Class Honours in Drama in 2002. An ardent essayist, David won the Keswick Prize for Lucidity for his paper "Homosexual Representation in the Broadway Musical: the development of homosexual identities and relationships from PATIENCE to RENT". Currently, he teaches Dramatic Arts at a high school in Cape Town and also freelances as a theatremaker and performer.




BWW Review: Soloists Shine, but Ambitious SHADES OF LOVE is Undercut by Whitewashing and Poor Design
BWW Review: Soloists Shine, but Ambitious SHADES OF LOVE is Undercut by Whitewashing and Poor Design
May 13, 2016

Cape Town City Ballet is nothing if not ambitious. SHADES OF LOVE sees the company's featured artists dancing superbly, but the production never coheres into a fully-realised evening of ballet.

BWW Review: Van Vuuren Makes LIFE a Laugh-a-minute Affair at the Baxter Theatre's Golden Arrow Studio
BWW Review: Van Vuuren Makes LIFE a Laugh-a-minute Affair at the Baxter Theatre's Golden Arrow Studio
May 11, 2016

Rob van Vuuren's LIFE is a side-splitting observation of the way we live today. Van Vuuren is uproariously funny, landing the many laughs that he sets up with his particularly distinctive flair. But watch out if you're seated in the first few rows...

BWW Review: Quirky YOU SUCK (AND OTHER INESCAPABLE TRUTHS) a Rosy-Wretched Comic Gem
BWW Review: Quirky YOU SUCK (AND OTHER INESCAPABLE TRUTHS) a Rosy-Wretched Comic Gem
May 7, 2016

YOU SUCK (AND OTHER INESCAPABLE TRUTHS) is hilariously biting comedy from playwright-performer Klara van Wyk, keeping the audiences in stitches of laughter from start to finish as she delves into the depths what it means to be a school pupil in our turbulent times.

BWW Review: FROM THE HEART Restores June Carter Cash as the Leading Player in Her Own Story
BWW Review: FROM THE HEART Restores June Carter Cash as the Leading Player in Her Own Story
May 5, 2016

In FROM THE HEART, the focus on and celebration of June Carter Cash as an individual is long past due, a welcome realignment of her story from her own perspective rather than as a supporting player in the narrative of her husband, the man in black, Johnny Cash.

UPDATE: ASSITEJ Responds to BWW SA Article On the Recognition of Theatre for Young Audiences at SA Awards
UPDATE: ASSITEJ Responds to BWW SA Article On the Recognition of Theatre for Young Audiences at SA Awards
May 2, 2016

The director of ASSITEJ SA, Yvette Hardie, responds to the BroadwayWorld South Africa article, 'On the Meaningful Recognition of Theatre for Young Audiences at South African Theatre Awards Ceremonies'.

BWW Blog: On the Meaningful Recognition of Theatre for Young Audiences at South African Theatre Awards Ceremonies
BWW Blog: On the Meaningful Recognition of Theatre for Young Audiences at South African Theatre Awards Ceremonies
April 19, 2016

How meaningful is the recognition of Theatre for Young Audiences at major South African theatre awards ceremonies such as the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards and the Naledi Theatre Awards>

BWW Blog: The 51st Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards in Review
BWW Blog: The 51st Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards in Review
March 23, 2016

The 51st Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards were presented at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town on Sunday night in a ceremony that highlighted the theme of 'new beginnings'. With the main event taking place in the newly refurbished Baxter Theatre, this year's winners all received a newly designed medallion. The evening also aimed to present to the audience of theatre-makers, performers, designers, critics and patrons a fusion of cultures.

BWW Review: Magnificent I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE a Must-See at the Magnet Theatre
BWW Review: Magnificent I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE a Must-See at the Magnet Theatre
February 22, 2016

Words are perhaps inadequate repositories to record the visceral emotional experience of watching I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE. It has to be seen. You have to live through it. And when you have, you too will see how I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE continues to live in you, just as it has in me.

BWW Review: Great Music Not Enough to Save BEAUTIFUL WRECKAGE at Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre
BWW Review: Great Music Not Enough to Save BEAUTIFUL WRECKAGE at Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre
February 22, 2016

Drugs are bad, yo. And sex? It'll ruin your life. These are just two of the life lessons to be learned in the gauchely naive BEAUTIFUL WRECKAGE, a new pop-rock musical written and performed by Grant Jacobs and Liam McDermott

BWW Reviews: An Allegory in the Making, CANNIBAL COUNTRY, Puts Privilege on the Menu at Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre
BWW Reviews: An Allegory in the Making, CANNIBAL COUNTRY, Puts Privilege on the Menu at Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre
February 19, 2016

CANNIBAL COUNTRY, a new physical theatre drama written by Alex McCarthy, made its bow at the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre this week. The timing is opportune, with protests at the University of Cape Town, of which McCarthy is a graduate, once again seeing emotions run high in both the mainstream and social media.

BWW Reviews: Lots of Laughs, but DOCTOR GODENSTEIN'S MAN Needs More Tinkering in the Lab
BWW Reviews: Lots of Laughs, but DOCTOR GODENSTEIN'S MAN Needs More Tinkering in the Lab
February 15, 2016

The latest entry in the tradition of FRANKENSTEIN parody and satrire is local theatre-maker Callum Tilbury's DOCTOR GODENSTEIN'S MAN, starring Wessel Pretorius and Ameera Conrad in a production directed by Byron Bure at the Galloway Theatre.

BWW Reviews: BANGALORY'S BACK with a Bang at the Baxter
BWW Reviews: BANGALORY'S BACK with a Bang at the Baxter
December 18, 2015

A revival of the iconic South African children's television show, BANGALORY TIME, adults are able to bring their children and grandchildren to enjoy fondly BANGALORY'S BACK and create some new fans at the same time.

BWW Special Feature: Getting Critical, And Putting The Spotlight On Theatre Reviews
BWW Special Feature: Getting Critical, And Putting The Spotlight On Theatre Reviews
December 14, 2015

Theatre criticism, they say, is in crisis. Follow the news feed of any theatre practitioner on any social media platform, and chances are that an impassioned debate will arise on the subject at some point. BroadwayWorld Contributing Editor David Fick takes a look at nature of criticism, its relevance and place in contemporary society and the ability of critics themselves to perceive the theatrical act.

BWW Reviews: Jon Keevy's EVERY BEAUTIFUL THING a Play Sewn Like Delicate Lace
BWW Reviews: Jon Keevy's EVERY BEAUTIFUL THING a Play Sewn Like Delicate Lace
May 16, 2015

EVERY BEAUTIFUL THING is a bittersweet microcosm of the human experience. It is in grappling with these two sisters' encounter that elusive thoughts rise to the surface about what lies behind the artifice of one's own life. Beautiful pain. Finding one in the other is our only hope.

BWW Reviews: Savvy and Sassy LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS an Enjoyable Musical Romp
BWW Reviews: Savvy and Sassy LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS an Enjoyable Musical Romp
May 9, 2015

Some three decades after its first premiere, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS still delivers on its promise to be an enjoyable romp for its audiences. In this production, there is a great deal of fun to be had in the kind of musical that offers only the slightest commentary on the world around us - 'whatever they offer you, don't feed the plants' - and mostly expects its viewers to kick back, relax and go along for the ride.

BWW Reviews: Too Little Life in Matthew Wild's CABARET at the Fugard, Old Chum
BWW Reviews: Too Little Life in Matthew Wild's CABARET at the Fugard, Old Chum
April 2, 2015

The Fugard Theatre's production of CABARET begins with a perfectly realised moment of theatre. Before long, the magic of that moment wears off, and this production of the classic John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff musical begins to flounder in Matthew Wild's directionless staging of the piece.

BWW Blogs: Reactions to the 50th Anniversary Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards Nominations
BWW Blogs: Reactions to the 50th Anniversary Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards Nominations
March 8, 2015

The Fleur du Cap nominations are out! Here are some thoughts about the nominees in each of the categories.

BWW Reviews: New South African Show ORPHEUS IN AFRICA All Set for Classic Musical Status
BWW Reviews: New South African Show ORPHEUS IN AFRICA All Set for Classic Musical Status
February 19, 2015

ORPHEUS IN AFRICA is all set to be a grand, old-fashioned classic musical in the Rodgers and Hammerstein tradition. Kramer has unearthed a fantastic historical footnote and found the reason that this story deserves to be raised into our consciousness more than a century after Orpheus McAdoo's death in 1900.

BWW Reviews: (Un)Making Men in MOFFIE a Vision for Dance That Matters
BWW Reviews: (Un)Making Men in MOFFIE a Vision for Dance That Matters
January 28, 2015

Billed as Bailey Snyman's dance interpretation of Andre Carl van der Merwe's novel, MOFFIE sets itself a demanding task in adapting and translating the themes of Van der Merwe's harrowing novel. That's enough to hope that MOFFIE is a piece that earns support so that Snyman and his Matchbox Theatre Collective can develop their work and continue to try and make dance that matters.

BWW Reviews: Devastatingly Competent OTHELLO Leaves Audience Out in the Cold at Maynardville
BWW Reviews: Devastatingly Competent OTHELLO Leaves Audience Out in the Cold at Maynardville
January 26, 2015

Fred Abrahamse's staging of OTHELLO fails to capture the accelerating spiral in which the titular character finds himself on the way to his doom; this OTHELLO is a bland, watered down affair that is, at best, a devastatingly competent reading of the play.



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