Tactics goes beyond the acting comfort zone

Designed to push the actors out of their comfort zones, any one of the four, indicated by the audience, have to play any of the parts set out in the five stories they present.Throw in a variety of unusual props, which have to be used in the manner the objects are designed for, are similarly chosen by the audience, and the sequence of five set stories to be acted in Tactics out are drawn out ...

Shakespeare as you like it

You only get one chance to see Hamlet played the way you choose to see it. Tonight, 10pm, at the Rhodes Theatre.  If you miss it you miss out.A product of the brilliant innovativeness (is there even such a word) of Tim Carroll's mind, it's a sort of Shakesperian theatresports - only I believe it is not, exactly.Cast member Tamara Guhrs tried to portray a sense of it the other morning over a ...

Paydirt is a goldmine

Plays are normally about people and their stories, or else delve into a particular issue. But Paydirt is a play, a great play, about a city, about the rough-and-ready heartbeat of South Africa – Jozi.   A fellow theatre-goer - who'se opinion I respect - questioned the wisdom of writing a play about a city as opposed to writing a character-based story through which the attributes of the city ...