Enjoy some Fawlty fun with ‘Tarty Flowers!’ at the Rhumbelow Theatre

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Mark Mulder and Annie Robinson star in Tarty Flowers!, directed by Paul Spence, at 2pm on Friday, October 28, 8pm on Saturday, October 29, 2 pm on Sunday, October 30, 8pm on Friday, November 4, 8pm on Saturday, November 5, and 2 pm and 6.30pm on Sunday, November 6 at the Rhumeblow Theatre in Cunningham Avenue, Umbilo, Durban. Continue reading

Durban Chamber Choir to present a programme titled ‘The Great Mystery’

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Members of the Durban Chamber Choir. Photo: Val Adamson

The Durban Chamber Choir continues its 2016 series of concerts with a programme intriguingly entitled ‘The Great Mystery’.

Performed under the baton of director, Dr Christopher Cockburn, this event, featuring choral music from the 16th and 21st centuries, is being staged at St Thomas’s Church in Musgrave, Durban, on Sunday, October 30 at 3pm.

The programme will be reprised at the Hayfields Lutheran Church in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday, November 6 at 3pm. Continue reading

Uncover new visual art gems at The Pearls in Umhlanga

Well known Imbizo Gallery owner and curator, Isabel Roos, is a lover of a broad selection of visual arts. Already the owner of two well established galleries – one in Ballito and one in Hoedspruit – her latest project is a beautiful new space in Pearl Walk, Umhlanga.

Pearl Walk is set to open its doors officially in November, but the new Imbizo Gallery will be opening with a bang on October 27. Continue reading

Young dance artists explore the language of movement in ‘Split Signs’

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Split Signs stars Julia de Rosenworth and Adriana Jamisse. Photo – Alessandra Giffin

Split Signs is a double bill performance at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, based at the Methodist Church Hall on the corner of Milton Road and Wesley Street, Observatory, Cape Town, at 8pm on October 26, 27 and 28, features exciting new work by Julia de Rosenwerth and Adriana Jamisse.

These young dance artists are working towards a language of movement and improvisation that is exploratory and different. Continue reading

Award-winning duo deliver unmissable physical comedy in ‘Feedback’ at The Theatre – St Anne’s in Hilton

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TQ Zondi (behind) and Mpilo Nzimande in Feedback

TWO of my favourite young actors, TQ Zondi and Mpilo Nzimande, will be performing in Feedback at The Theatre-St Anne’s College at 7.30pm on Friday, October 28.

This Hexagon Theatre production, directed by Peter Mitchell, is a fantastical murder mystery that, in the peculiar logic of playwright Andrew Buckland, becomes a hilarious, poignant, lyrical and quirky piece of physical theatre. Continue reading

Christopher Duigan plays Ludwig van Beethoven in Kloof and ‘Maritzburg

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Christopher Duigan. Photo: Val Adamson

MARITZBURG pianist, Christopher Duigan, will be performing the music of Ludwig van Beethoven at St Agnes Church in Kloof at 7.30 pm on Thursday, October 27 and at the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli Street, Pietermaritzburg at 11.30 am on Sunday, October 30.

He will play three sonatas from the canon of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas that represent each of these periods: the light-hearted Sonata in F Op 10 No 2, the popular ‘Moonlight’ Sonata Op 27 no 2 and the Sonata in E Op 109. Continue reading