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Results14Like love and hate, there is a fine line between madness and sanity
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, on at the Baxter, is one of those rare treats that comes along only so often and shows the unifying art of excellent storytelling
Visigoths should come with a warning
Totally unprepared to bear witness to the horror, we fled the theatre
Sophie Joans’s one-woman volcano
Watch out Trevor Noah?
Aah South Africa … from Kalahari blues to Handspringery
Here is something I found from 2013 … David Kramer’s Kalahari Karoo Blues reminded us why we “couldn’t possibly live anywhere else but in this land of unexpected genius and overflowing sincerity”.
The struggle for freedom from struggle
The child of survivors doesn’t bargain on how much his parents would sacrifice to avoid him being pulled into the war against tyranny, escape from which has shaped their entire lives
Baxter Theatre renamed to honour Pam Golding
The renaming of the main theatre at the Baxter is a fabulous legacy for Pam Golding and a shot in the arm for the Baxter, no doubt
Not just another play about apartheid
It is shocking how relevant this play is more than six decades after its premier
From broken boy to beast, a coming of age
A jarring reflection of these brutal times; Shadow Boxing is also a searing tale of a coming of age that would strip even the strongest among us to their bare bones
Intense and surreal theatre … life mimics art mimics life
The Life and Times of Michael K left me searching for distraction and dilution, things I usually avoid