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No maybes about …Miskien
“What is all the fuss about?” I wondered during the first quarter of Ovation-Award winning play Miskien.It seemed to be a middle-of-the-road play about two young guys living rather banal lives. Sex, beer and the boring office hours in-between appeared to be the theme, with an odd little monologue of desperation from Gideon Lombard thrown in now and again.Then, about half-way in, we ...
Simon sums it up: day four
Written by Simon Cooper: SPREAD THE WORD PEOPLE.Not a day of rest ! Five shows in all.Some Festivals ago two of us were persuaded by the younger version of a now well known theatre person, who draped herself provocatively over our table in the booking tent, that a healthy dose of sex at 10h00 on Sunday morning was a good idea - not, I hasten to add, in any context other than a show she ...
Three Little Pigs blow the house down
Upon entering the theatre, you cannot look James Cairns in the eye, in the same way you would not be able to look Richard Mdluli, Bheki Cele or Radovan Krejcir the eye. There's too much malevolent power there.He paces behind barbed wire welcoming every person to the slaughter with intense, barely contained malice while good cop Pretorius conceals his sadism behind a paternal belly and skew ...
Coming round again – yay!
Written by Simon Cooper:And so it begins again. I can't help wondering if, truly, for me the last day of the Grahamstown Festival is not actually New Year's Eve, a night to celebrate the good that has punctuated the year before and to gird up one's loins for the year ahead. But before we get there, there are 11 days of cold mornings and evenings, of amazingly good performance and some ...
