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Watch bodies speak
Review: BenchmarksI have many issues with ‘issue’ theatre. South Africa has a rich history of protest theatre – theatre which politicised, which incited, which educated. Post-democracy, many of these protest-era playwrights have become disillusioned: audiences today are complacent, they say. People do not care about politics anymore, preferring to see Euro-imported musicals and ...
Benchmark? Hope not
Review: BenchmarksThe test of a play's worth at festival is whether it can make you forget the chicken pie and gluhwein niggling at your gut. That your seat is uncomfortable, that your feet are cold, that you need to blow your nose.These things occupied my mind as what is probably the oddest opening scene I’ve yet watched played out in front of us, and continued to bother me for the first ...
Ugli Bob saved my day
It was not a great theatre day for me. The Butcher Brothers had no electricity and was cancelled. Then I saw the worst thing ever. But oh joy and delight. I went to Benchmarks tonight.I loved Benchmarks a lot. It’s quite typical FTH:K work; masks, wordless, visual, obscure. But for me, the work has arrived. It’s the story of a refugee, a home affairs official and a reclusive ex actress, in ...
