A freelance arts writer since 1998, I fell in love with the theatre as a toddler, proved rubbish as a ballerina: my starring role was as Mrs Pussy in Noddy as a seven-year-old, and earned my stripes as an academic in Fine Arts and Art History, in subsequent years. I write for a range of online and print publications, including the Sunday Times, the Mail & Guardian and artslink.co.za and was formerly the arts editor of the SA Jewish Report, a weekly newspaper with which I was associated for 16 years. I am currently a Research Associate at Wits University. This blog promises you new stories every week, be they reviews, profiles, news stories or features.
My Brilliant Divorce a tale which features everything from the secret medical horrors that eating too much beetroot brings, to the mortifying business of buying a dildo for the first time. Normington sparkles with credibility and her own wonderful sense of the ridiculous and under Committie’s direction. it’s pure delight.
‘Grounded’ is a knock-out of a work featuring the magnificent Canadian mezzo soprano Emily d’Angelo, that offers a take on female identity in the man’s world of war and aggression. It breaks fresh ground with contemporary technology and will blow your mind with its take on moral trauma and complexity.
The Motive and the Cue is as much about the hierarchy and debauched embarrassing nature of theatremakers, who feed off one another’s intimacies as it is about the greatness they can produce when under the spotlight and in the spell of the work itself. Beautifully staged, it is a treat.
Occasionally a theatrical work sees light of day and it comes with a shimmer of value from afar. Just by the mention of its name. We’ve been hearing reverberations of Lucy Barton for months, while it has toured nationally. See it today, if it is the only show you see.
This is opera at its best … prepare yourself for a total treat, for the ears, eyes and soul. It will replenish you, even if you are not familiar with the work, or the medium of opera.
When it comes to the marvellous Elzabe Zietsman performing ‘Routrip’, in pure, beautiful, unapologetic Afrikaans, in this city at last, you just have to switch off the social media, disregard your diary and simply go. It performs at 3pm at The Studio Theatre, Montecasino in Fourways on 20 October 2024.
A microcosmic reflection on the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine, ‘Grey Bees’ is Beckettian in its existential crises, dark humour and give and take between the two characters, Serhiich (Viktor Zhdanov) and Pashka (Vladimir Yamnenko). They’ve known each other for decades and are utterly indifferent to one another.
‘Dying’ is an outrageously beautiful understanding of grown-up life in all its messiness, and in particular, the life choices of one who creates.
This film gives you a guttural love of the universe to take home with you. Stripped cleanly of platitudes, it is unabashedly about grabbing life in fists full of pungently ripe blackberries and holding on to one’s self-belief and one’s privacy, come what may.
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