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A rich musical feast
<i>Love and Green Onions</i> is a rich musical feast enlivened by great performances and some fine, infectious songs, writes Guy Willoughby.
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Zippin’ up his boots
Accompanied by a group of unsung folk musicians, David Kramer has gone back to his roots, writes Guy Willoughby.
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Front-rankers wank in the front row
Now in its fifth year, this hugely successful funny-folk festival has made marvellous strides, writes Guy Willoughby.
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Nuzzle on your tongue
‘Stamp collecting is a passion South Africans refuse to grow out of’, writes Stephen Gray.
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The music of Fugard
Athol Fugard’s <i>Valley Song</i> has been set to music by composer Thomas Rajna, writes Guy Willoughby, the instigator of the project.
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African magic
Nelson Mandela’s favourite tales come alive on stage, thanks to Janice Honeyman’s obsessive inclinations, writes Guy Willoughby.
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Bristling energy
<i>At Her Feet</i> is a brilliant, precocious theatrical achievement — that doesn’t know when to stop, writes Guy Willoughby.
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Opera in hell
Opera in South Africa — and in Cape Town in particular — stands at a critical but exciting crossroads, writes . As Cape Town Opera CEO Angelo Gobbato recently remarked, with casts now overwhelmingly black, the search is on to win an audience fitting the same description.
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Fact, fiction, friction
Cape Town may be buzzing with culture, but it needs effective marketing, writes Guy Willoughby
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Loud outsider
British writer-actor-director Steven Berk-off, who created such thrilling stage masterpieces as Decadence, Greek and East, brings his galvanic energy to Cape Town this week in three performances of his solo show, One Man.
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Music, memory, myth
The dockside slum — largely owned by white landowners — was, until the 1960s, the site of creative, exciting inter-racial and interfaith harmony, which was destroyed by apartheid legislation’s Group Areas Act in the 1960s.
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The only gay Eskimo
One of the hottest sensations at this year’s Smirnoff International Comedy Festival at the Baxter Theatre has to be Canada’s Phil Nicol, whose madcap antics in the Danger Zone (read: "adult humour") have won big if baffled audiences.
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Not so great dictator
The spectacle of the World Summit seems to dwarf the footling efforts of mere artists. But the power of theatre was vividly demonstrated in Cape Town last week when Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka previewed King Baabu, his new play.
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Hot water needed
Once upon a time the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown was the chief cultural event of the year. Arts movers-and-shakers from all over gathered, before a sizeable and appreciative audience, to parade wares, exchange sparks and create a rich cultural synergy that fuelled the year following.
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Ideas in exile
An exploration of exile penned by top writer Zakes Mda — due to premiere at the National Arts Festival this week — promises to be an explosive mix of memories, attitudes, forms and a searching look at ideals and reality in South African society today.
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Filming the dark side
<b>Q&A</b>: Clifford Bestall with Guy Willoughby.
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Freeing Fugard
Athol Fugard’s plays have tackled every hidden corner of life under the grossest of sociopolitical orders, creating as he went a record of inestimable value, writes Guy Willoughby.
