In this show, Thamm riffs on about the Guptas’ exposure and the all-seeing eyes of DA leader, Helen Zille. She talks a million miles a second of the insane outcomes of everything from Covid legislation to stolen billions of Rands and whistle-blowers, who have shaped (and saved) this country’s face.
In the hands of one of South African theatre’s dream teams, this is a gem of a work. Job Kubatsi and Lebohang Motaung, in minor roles, give life to the bitter jokes that lubricated black society during the darkest days of apartheid, reminiscent of the bleak humour in Dostoevsky’s novels.
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.
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.
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.
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