I wanted to share this thoughtful and hopeful note from the Baxter CEO, who is also a creator of sensational theatre. We can only hope the latest tightening of lockdown regulations will not mean too many seats must be refunded (indoor gathering limit reduced from 250 to 100). But seriously, look at this line-up … everyone involved deserves a medal
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Artscape has come a long way in 50 years
Theatre opened as the Nico Malan in 1971 for whites only
Ballet, like history, is in new hands
Cape Town-born, London-based dancer and choreographer Mthuthuzeli November’s Ingoma fuses ballet with African song and dance in a compelling portrayal of the passion, the grief and the loss of the men, women and children caught up in the 1946 Witwatersrand miners’ strike.
Q, queue, cue, question (?)
Who remembers April 1994? In SA or Rwanda? As Israel hammers Gaza, now is the time to go see Alfredo Jaar’s Rwanda Project at Zeitz Mocaa, says Alex Dodd. Hurry! It closes on May 23
Gods, goddesses, classic pop, Eros is anything but a drag
The Trolley Dollies of Gate 69 take Get Up, Dress Up and Show Up to a new level
A little lockdown antidote at the Raptor Room
A clutch of courageous, outrageous drag queens reminded us of how pride and prejudice can rub up against each other and create fireworks.
The Fugard. The End
The Fugard Theatre joins a list of things we have lost to the damned plague
Around a campfire on a dark and starry night …
Constellations, a series of magical campfire encounters at small hidden clearings tucked into the forest along the riverbed on Spier Wine Estate
Their majesty
Alex Dodd bows down before Zanele Muholi at Norval Foundation
Zeitz gives us back the days we lost
Zeitz Mocaa wrote to me today, day 11ty million of lockdown, and said they had extended my membership by the number of days that nasty virus
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