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Lost and lovin’ it
By Mike LoeweI am not a reviewer. I am an audience participator, and if anyone can improve on that mouthful, let me know.We take different things from shows. Sometimes this is what we say when we don’t actually get it.Last year I wrote voluminously about Wreckage, which starred Andrew Buckland. It was crazy wild, but we got it and it was extraordinary.This year I watched Andrew ...
Slam interview with “Wreckage” director Brink Scholtz
I got hold of the self-described “young director” of “Wreckage”, Brink Scholtz, 34, to find out what was going on in her head.I loved "Wreckage", and after three packed showings, so did two full houses who gave it standing ovations.But others find it disjointed and hard to understand.She says it’s a post-modern piece and has no linear or sequential narrative.It is ...
Wrecked by Wreckage
Review: WreckageThis physical theatre piece connects one subliminally to the place of shattered physicality, psychic breakage, loss and death.Literally located in the shipwrecks off the Wild Coast in the C16, it metaphorically locates us in a primal place – dislocation, dissolution, decay and severance.A tarot deck of the major arcane, it left me sobbing because of some incoherent ...
Andrew (finally) drops his shorts
Review: WreckageThere’s a reason Grahamstown and surrounds is called Frontier country, and it’s not because it was a frontier. It’s because it still is.There are times the history of these hills seeps into this ship called Daily Life at a rate that threatens to sink it.Two cultures, divided by the Kowie ditch, continue, generations since they first met, to tread warily around one ...
