Month: March 2016

Miller classic The Crucible at Epworth

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AFTER working with pupils on a scene from Arthur Miller’s powerful play, The Crucible, drama teacher, Diana Wilson, was so impressed with their efforts she started to think about staging the full play at Epworth School in Pietermaritzburg.

“They did the scene so well and I was so excited about what I was seeing that I thought their would definitely be something in it if we did the play,” Wilson said.

The Epworth girls will be performing alongside a talented group of Hilton College boys in The Crucible, which is being staged in The Haley Hall, from Monday, March 14 to Thursday, March 17 at 7pm. Continue reading →

Don’t miss Curl up and Dye at St Anne’s Theatre in Hilton

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A scene from Curl Up and Dye.

CURL Up and Dye, a South African protest play set in a deteriorating hairdressing salon in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, in 1989, is being presented by pupils at the Theatre – St Anne’s College in Hilton at 7.30 pm from March 14 to 17. Continue reading →

It’s 90s mania at the Barnyard

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The Barnyard Theatre at Gateway Theatre of Shopping in Umhlanga will be celebrating the venue’s 100th major production with a trip back to the end of the 20th century, when it stages 90’s Mania from March 8 to April 17.

This show is a double celebration of this milestone and a cool decade filled with a variety of pop, rock, alternative, old school and a collection of one-hit wonders! Continue reading →

White Christmas: a bittersweet tale told by a rising young star

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Jonathan Cohen appears in his first one-man show next month, in Clinton Marius’s ‘White Christmas’. Photo: Val Adamson

Review: White Christmas at Seabrooke’s Theatre, Durban High School

THE Oxford English dictionary describes trauma as a ‘deeply distressing or disturbing experience’ – but those words cannot adequately describe the effect that a violent incident can have on both the person affected and those around them.

In Clinton Marius’ latest show, the one-man tragi-comedy, White Christmas, he examines just what happens to one family following just such an incident. Continue reading →

Don’t miss NT Live’s screening of Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Cinema Nouveau

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Photo: Johan Persson

IF you love watching the National Theatre Live broadcasts then you can’t afford to miss the latest offering in the series, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which is being screened at Cinema Nouveau theatres in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town.

Filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London there will be four screenings only on Saturday, March 5 at 7.30pm. Sunday, March 6 at 2.30 pm, Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30 pm and Thursday, March 6 at 7.30 pm. Continue reading →