It would have been very difficult to actually upstage Simphiwe Dana on the last night of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, but if anyone could it
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Drugs, love, drama … we are all addicts
Riveting performances in Lara Foot’s new play, The Inconvenience of Wings, which opened at the Baxter Theatre on Thursday night, leave the audience feeling totally exposed
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The sensational Sillage takes Gold
Sillage won a a Gold Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, the only one given this year. How I love it when I back
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Twisted drama feels like a dose of therapy
At a National Arts Festival packed with psycho drama, the dark little comedy Father, Father Father! felt like a good dose of therapy … if not
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Crossing from the sane side
The Search for Intelligent Signs of Life in the Universe at the National Arts Festival is amazeballs! And, forthwith, I will be using amazeballs and other
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A thrilling mix of grace and power
My weekend’s highlight at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown was always going to be Cape Dance Company’s show. And that was before Mthuthuzeli November’s devastatingly
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As irresistible as it sounds
Ladies of Midnight Blue starts out gently, playfully. Two women drumming. It is rhythmic and somehow hypnotic, you follow them down the path. The beat speeds
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Grahamstown: Curtain’s up!
A short-ish drive (130km) from Port Elizabeth airport to Grahamstown is just perfect to re-calibrate heart and mind, aka get one in the mood, for the
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Journey through another world
Review: A Thousand Shepherds by Cape Dance Company at Artscape Theatre, Cape Town A Thousand Shepherds takes your breath away as it screams out to all your senses,
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Transforming the African musical landscape
In a stroke of creative mastery, a media company that is set to transform the music scene in Africa has helped a diverse group of African
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