Lara Foot’s Othello often seems to explode and shower the audience with so many tiny shards of emotional shrapnel
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Results17Life: a dance between heaven and hell
Gregory Maqoma and Zakes Mda to the sounds of an Africanised Ravel’s Boléro, very probably the best show we will see this year
A last dance for the ancestors
Telling his own powerful history with his body, Gregory Maqoma reflects on our deeply divisive past and present.
Love Notes from Don Vino and Selim Kajee
Play the video; you will know if it is for you within seconds
Like 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