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”.
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Fasten your seatbelts, bitches!
Good news! The fabulous Trolley Dollies of Gate 69 have walked away from that plane crash that was Covid19 and the Lockdown
Satori: a sudden enlightenment
Cape Town City Ballet’s appropriately (and rather deliciously) titled Satori certainly felt like enlightenment, if not so sudden. We have been watching this incredible transformation for
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There is more than one fairytale in dazzling new Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty is an enduring and wonderful story, but the real fairytale in Cape Town City Ballet’s new production on Saturday August 17 was to see
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The musical gets remixed and rebooted
Review: Kinky Boots, at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, until October 27 Even the most curmudgeonly of curmudgeons will find it hard not to be
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One-man show cracks head, then heart, wide open
Review: Kafka’s Ape, Alexander Bar until June 22, after that at National Arts Festival in Makhanda, formerly known as Grahamstown Adapted and directed by Phala O.
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Food and wine that (almost) tops the art
Layers and layers of pleasure, in every colour and shape, have been added week by week as we have popped in often, for a minute or
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When the journey is the destination
Sometimes one goes there and back just to see how far it is, this was a day like that. A steam train trip from Cape Town
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A raucously familiar Unfair Lady
Unfair Lady at Alexander Bar, Cape Town, until Saturday December 12This stunning little number from Pop Art theatre in Joburg’s Maboneng district trawls the very fertile grounds
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Rolling with Rolihlahla
If we were a shopping centre I think we would have our first anchor tenant! Meridian Nolithemba Berndt – traditional healer, herbalist and ritual facilitator
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