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BWW Reviews: DIRTY DANCING Not Quite the Time of Your Life
The commercial success of DIRTY DANCING on stage is a testament to the enduring popularity of the 1987 coming-of-age drama that inspired it....
BWW Reviews: Dark Satire, and a Challenge in THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS is no fairy tale, but a thrilling political satire and a completely absorbing piece of theatre....
BWW Reviews: Moving KALAHARI KAROO BLUES is a Must-See
KALAHARI KAROO BLUES brings to the stage an eclectic group of folk musicians who make magic by sharing their music....
BWW Reviews: Passionate KINGDOM OF EARTH Impresses at the Artscape Arena
No other piece on Cape Town stages between now and the end of 2012 will give you the complex experience or catharsis that KINGDOM OF EARTH does....
BWW Reviews: So-So Retelling of Kipling's Classic JUST SO STORIES at the V&A Waterfront
JUST SO STORIES has the potential to be great children's theatre, but it is just so-so, falling short in both the scripting and performances....
BWW Reviews: Effusive Fun at the Kalk Bay Theatre with FACE THE MUSIC 2
FACE THE MUSIC 2 is a great night out for a group of friends looking for a good time this festive season....
BWW Reviews: Moving and Jolly MINNIE AND JOHNSON at the Kalk Bay Theatre
Cape Town audiences do not have many chances to see MINNIE AND JOHNSON, which is a pity. Whether you have seen them before, either alone or together, this is a show that will lift your spirits and banish your bad day or year-end blues....
BWW Reviews: Diverting and Thought-Provoking SPECIAL THANKS TO GUESTS FROM AFAR at Artscape Arena
In SPECIAL THANKS TO GUESTS FROM AFAR, Nicholas Spagnoletti has crafted a play that is both diverting and thought-provoking, one that has been brought to life vividly by director Matthew Wild, but which also narrowly misses being a truly remarkable new South African play....
BWW Reviews: Compelling Comedy with Martin Evans in FBPK at the Kalk Bay Theatre
As the opening of FBPK rolled around, I was wondering whether I needed a break from comedy. As it turned out, this show, by Martin Evans, turned out to be the best comedy show I have seen in the last 18 months....
BWW Reviews: Evocative and Memorable RED at Theatre on the Bay
When I heard that RED would run briefly at Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town after a successful premiere at the National Arts Festival three months ago, I made sure that I would be able to see it. And, I am pleased to say, that the wait was worth it....
BWW Reviews: Plenty of Laughs on the Cape Town Comedy Circuit with Oskar Brown and Pieter-Dirk Uys
Oskar Brown in ONE NIGHT ONLY and Pieter-Dirk Uys in AN AUDIENCE WITH PIETER-DIRK EISH! are two shows that are vastly different in approach and style, but which both offer up laughs and plenty of entertainment for their respective audiences.
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BWW Reviews: Funny BENCH Fleeces Its Own Intentions at The Kalk Bay Theatre
Halfway through the world premiere of Brent Palmer's BENCH, it occurred to me that there were two plays competing for the stage and for the audience's attention. One is a character-driven, comic two-hander. The other is a play about identity and representation....
BWW Reviews: Mesmerising Dance in BIKO'S QUEST at Artscape Theatre
Memory. Identity. History. Emotion. These are the cornerstones of BIKO'S QUEST, the newest production from Jazzart Dance Theatre, directed by Mandla Mbothwe and choreographed by Jacqueline Manyaapelo, Ina Wichterich-Mogane and Mzokuthula Gasa....
BWW Reviews: Partly First Class, Partly Frustrating RAYMONDA at the Artscape Opera House
16 years since it was last seen on stage in Cape Town, Cape Town City Ballet has brought RAYMONDA back to the Artscape for a short winter season. It is a beautiful production of a ballet that is infamously light on narrative and heavy on dance, which makes for an evening of some first class performa...
BWW Reviews: Electric CABARET Lights Up Theatre on the Bay
KickstArt's CABARET, the classic musical by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff based on Christopher Isherwood's semi-autobiographical GOODBYE TO BERLIN, has opened at last in Cape Town. A professional production of the show has not been seen in this city for far too long and, in this fantastic ...
BWW Reviews: Vivid and Vibrant Trip Down MAFEKING ROAD at The Kalk Bay Theatre
Four of Herman Charles Bosman's stories are dramatised in The Pink Couch's MAFEKING ROAD and Tara Notcutt, Andrew Laubscher and Mathew Lewis succeed in serving Bosman's vision, even as they deconstruct everything that is traditionally accepted about his work and the way it has hitherto been performe...
BWW Reviews: TROUBLE IN TAHITI Full of Promise and Proposals
The opening of Leonard Bernstein's TROUBLE IN TAHITI in Cape Town this week was cause for great excitement and justifiably so. Bernstein's opera gets less of an airing both here and internationally than it should and the debut collaboration between Cape Town Opera and the Fugard Theatre is also a re...
BWW Reviews: Moving QUEEN AT THE BALLET Revival Needs Something More
Bovim Ballet is back on stage in Cape Town with a return reason of QUEEN AT THE BALLET. One of the project-based company's flagship productions, this 'rock ballet' was first seen in 2004. A tribute to Freddie Mercury, the show delves into the life of the enigmatic frontman of Queen, using the timele...
BWW Reviews: South African BURN THE FLOOR Tour Sizzles, July-Sept 2012
'This ain't your grandma's ballroom,' the posters say. And although BURN THE FLOOR might not be the kind of ballroom dancing my grandmother grew up seeing (or dancing, for that matter), I would hazard a guess that she would enjoy the show just as much as I did....
BWW Reviews: JUST BUSINESS Entertains and Stimulates at the Artscape Arena, July 2012
There is honour among thieves, they say. In JUST BUSINESS, playwright and self-styled cultural activist Mike van Graan says otherwise. A reworking of an earlier play, HOSTILE TAKEOVER, the text offers to the audience an investigation of corruption in business and the game of survival that seems to b...
BWW Reviews: THE BLUE IRIS Disappoints and MIES JULIE Thrills on Cape Town Stages
A decade ago, many disdained the idea of adapting classic plays in the South African idiom. The juxtaposition of THE BLUE IRIS at the Fugard Theatre and MIES JULIE at the Baxter Theatre offers a new opportunity to explore that debate, by no means a new one in the context of South African theatre....
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