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BWW Reviews: Hyland's Evocative Staging of WOUNDS TO THE FACE a Perfect Choice for Student Theatre
As a play text, WOUNDS TO THE FACE is perhaps not as brutal an onslaught on audience reception as some of Howard Barker's other plays, but this production by the University of Cape Town's Drama Department certainly does reveal how challenging the piece is to realise as theatre, especially for young ...
BWW Reviews: Visually Arresting PIET SE OPTELGOED a Mesmerising and Perplexing Experience
There is a great deal going on in the mind-scape that is PIET SE OPTELGOED. A piece of theatre that defies labels, it could be described as post-modern feminist visual theatre of the absurd....
BWW Reviews: ...MISKIEN a Courageous, Meaningful and Transcendent Work of Art
…MISKIEN was the debut production of The Pink Couch, the company founded by Tara Notcutt, Albert Pretorius, Gideon Lombard and Mat Lewis. Written by Notcutt, Pretorius and Lombard, it was a landmark production for the fledgling theatre-makers and toured the festival circuit, locally and internatio...
BWW Reviews: OLD KIT BAG a Good Old-Fashioned Great Night Out
OLD KIT BAG is a small show with a big heart, paying tribute to the power that music has to bring people together in times of trouble. It is a good old-fashioned great night out....
BWW Reviews: Engaging and Challenging THE VERTICAL HOUR a Meaty Theatrical Dish
Whichever way you look at it, THE VERTICAL HOUR is an engaging and challenging play. Hare has given directors and actors the ingredients of a meaty theatrical dish, and audiences a great deal to digest....
BWW Reviews: Meditative STRUCK SILENT Captures the Sense of Aging, But Not Its Economics
With its alternative creative springboard, STRUCK SILENT captures a sense of what it means to be an aging person in a modern society, but the piece never fully distils its inspirations into a thesis that confronts, challenges or moves the audience in the moment of performance....
BWW Reviews: Abrahamse & Meyer's ONE ARM a Winning Adaptation of Tennessee Williams Short Story
Abrahamse & Meyer Productions are back at the Artscape Arena with ONE ARM, the company's latest exploration of the work of Tennessee Williams and the first of which is a new adaptation of a non-theatrical work by the iconic playwright and author....
BWW Reviews: Deep Fried Man Lifts Mediocre FUNNIER THAN THEM at the Fugard
A good friend of mine often says that stand-up comedy is one of those things that cannot be mediocre. Due to the technicality that the show consists of a line-up of three comics, FUNNIER THAN THEM bucks the trend and manages to be a thoroughly mediocre affair....
BWW Reviews: Viljoen's THE KINGMAKERS a Fascinating and Lightning Paced Character Study
In THE KINGMAKERS, Viljoen turns his hand to political satire, delving into the dark side of oppositional politics, where the word of the spin doctors is law and where secrets hold more weight than transparency....
BWW Reviews: Vibrant Actresses Bring EMOTIONAL CREATURE to Life at the Baxter
EMOTIONAL CREATURE is a piece of theatre that is incredibly well-tailored for its target audience of teenage girls, who will love this production should they have the opportunity to visit the Baxter Theatre during its short ten day run....
BWW Reviews: OSCAR AND THE PINK LADY is Deeply Poignant Must-See Theatre
OSCAR AND THE PINK LADY is structured as a series of letters to God by the play's protagonist, ten-tear-old Oscar. This review is written as a response to this deeply poignant play's structure....
BWW Reviews: Light, Fluffy and Camp FRANÇOISE HARDY & BREL, SO ALIVE, SO WELL! Lights Up the Rosebank
FRANÇOISE HARDY & BREL, SO ALIVE, SO WELL! locates itself within the tradition of popular entertainment in cabaret, an unassuming compilation of songs made famous by Francoise Hardy and Jacques Brel, threaded together by the slightest suggestion of a narrative concept in which the two meet in a Par...
BWW Reviews: Darkroom Contemporary's BLUEPRINT Offers Alternative Dance for Alternative Audiences
BLUEPRINT is the high profile, alternative new dance project by Darkroom Contemporary, a project being presented under the World Design Capital banner at the Cape Town City Hall. Louise Coetzer choreographs a quartet of dances on a sestet of dancers to make up the programme....
BWW Reviews: Complex DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS Needs Deeper Interrogation
Eugene O'Neill's DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS is the subject of a new adaptation, with the action transferred from 1840s New England to the Eastern Cape of the 1890s in an attempt to amplify the resonance that O'Neill's classic play has for the South African theatre audiences of today....
BWW Reviews: Chilling and Challenging SLOWLY Stirs the Imagination and Seduces the Emotions
SLOWLY is theatre that pulsates with life and purpose, that demands engagement and which stirs the imagination and the emotions deeply. This uncompromising play is a must-see....
BWW Reviews: Instead of Soaring, Jazzart's BHABHA Crashes and Burns
Jazzart's latest production, BHABHA, represents a low point for the company, after a downward spiral over the past 18 months. Choreographed by Moeketsi Koena and directed by Jacki Job, the show disappoints on almost every level....
BWW Reviews: Dynamic and Disturbing VASLAV Lays Bare Nijinsky's Soul at the Kalk Bay Theatre
VASLAV is a dynamic, vigorous and disturbing exploration of Vaslav Nijinsky's mind just prior to his internment in an asylum in Switzerland, based on the diaries he wrote over six weeks before he was committed, on the edge of a complete nervous breakdown....
BWW Reviews: Fugard Still a Compelling Presence in THE SHADOW OF THE HUMMINGBIRD
The greatest thing about THE SHADOW OF THE HUMMINGBIRD is seeing South African theatre legend, Athol Fugard, back on stage. It is an event that I never thought I would see come to pass in my lifetime; that it happened is something for which I will always be grateful....
BWW Reviews: Resonant FISHERS OF HOPE (TAWARET) a Step in the Right Direction for the Baxter
Acclaimed South African writer-director Lara Foot's new play deals with the specific trials and tribulations of the fishing community of western Kenya, telling a story that holds a great deal of resonance for us here in South Africa, without being drowned out by our own socio-political history and s...
BWW Reviews: Evocative SALT Lingers After the Lights Dim at the NAF
SALT is an incredibly satisfying theatrical experience, the emergence of a new voice within the South African theatre landscape....
BWW Reviews: RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS Falters Rather than Flies at the National Arts Festival
Protest theatre should burn fiercely in the darkness that surrounds it; RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS only flickers enough for us to make out what we have already seen....
BWW Reviews: WRETCHED an Engaging Tightrope Walk between the Whimsical and Macabre at the NAF
WRETCHED leaves the audience knowing that hearts bleed and the power lies within us to shift our heart-spaces. The secret it shares about life in its last moments is one worth being reminded of....
BWW Reviews: Rambunctious FERGUS OF GALLOWAY Musical Takes the Stage at the Rosebank
FERGUS OF GALLOWAY makes for a great night of new musical theatre, a South African premiere of which the Rosebank can be proud of hosting in its intimate theatrical haven....
BWW Reviews: UNDERSTUDY BLUES Melt Away as Candice van Litsenborgh Takes the Stage
In this cabaret, Candice van Litsenborgh places centre stage those actors whose work directors love 'so doggone much that (they're) their second choice', singing a selection of 18 songs along the way....
BWW Reviews: LION ON THE PATH a Jolly Night for All at the Rosebank Theatre
Nine students from the University of Cape Town's Drama Department take on the time-honoured task of storytelling, providing an hour or so of rib-tickling entertainment as they make their way through ten tales from Southern Africa...
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