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Dirt is a dead cert
Review: DirtThe boys hit the dirt to lower their friend into it – digging up the dirt on each other as they go about it – in this skilfully crafted one-man show about friendship.Cairns is fabulously funny in his highly entertaining observation of multiple characters, and a dog. Or two.From the minute he started Cairns had the audience right with him … they just loved it. -- Jane Stone
Simon says: A 10/10 for Dirt
Grahamstown was quite full this weekend but the start of the 2nd week drop away will likely kick in on Monday before numbers pick up again about mid-week (hopefully). Most performers I have spoken to are reasonably happy but with a thread of technical difficulties running through everyone's comments. The time is here when the festival organisers should look at the quality of techs on the ...
Dishing up the Dirt
I haven't seen the latest incarnation of James Cairn's one-hander Dirt, but I saw it at the Kalk Bay Theatre in Cape Town last year.This is what I wrote on www.westcapenews.com at the time, and if anything, it has probably only got better:Stripping the pretensions of theatre away to deliver rock solid acting is what we have come to expect from James Cairns, who after some years of being ...
The Wayne Rooney of acting
If there was a World Cup of performing artists, James Cairns would be Wayne Rooney. His ability to dribble a narrative through the vagaries of ten characters, and then shoot the story into closure without you second-guessing the play equals, in fact probably surpasses, the fancy footwork and game-making abilities of his northern football counterpart. Also, this comparison lark is not entirely my ...
