Aaron McIlroy onstage in ‘Comedy Masterclass’. Photo: Val Adamson
MacBob Productions presents a return season of Aaron McIlroy’s multi-award winning hit, Comedy Masterclass. This plays at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College in Durban from 21 to 26 March. Continue reading
The cast from Dingalings Productions is at it again. In their hilarious new show One for the Road, to be staged at Sibaya’s iZulu Theatre this month, the guys are on the way to a gig when their car breaks down.
While waiting for “roadside” assistance, they get up to their usual antics, relaying nostalgic stories and performing toe-tapping hits from yesteryear. Continue reading
Penelope (Nicola Oelofse) and Odysseus (Bonwa Mbontsi).
Inspired by the Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, The Theatre – St Anne’s College in Hilton presents Penelope – A Dance Theatre Production at 7.30pm from Monday, March 20 to Thursday, March 23.
Directed by Lynn Chemaly, the show features choreography by Bonwa Mbontsi and an original Score by Christopher Duigan. Continue reading
The Flatfoot Dance Company in full flight. Photo: Val Adamson
The Flatfoot Dance Company presents Sadhana at the Playhouse Drama Theatre in Durban from March 23 to 26.
This is the newest offering from the acclaimed team that created the award-winning Bhakti. Choreographed by Lliane Loots, the work steps boldly into Eastern mystical philosophy and its confluence with African rhythms and dance, creating a dance theatre feast for the senses. Continue reading
Fifi Olifant plays the Adagio from Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy in the Pietermaritzburg City Hall. Photo: Michel Schneuwly
BEAUTIFUL music takes, performed by world class musicians, will take centre stage when the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra performs in the Pietermaritzburg City Hall on Friday, March 24 at 7.30 pm.
Presented by the KZN Philharmonic, in association with Christopher Duigan’s Music Revival and Parklane SuperSpar, the annual Symphony in the City, will feature solo performances by three of the orchestra’s most outstanding young musicians: Aristide du Plessis (cello), Junnan Sun (clarinet) and Fifi Olifant (violin). Continue reading
The Gee Jays – Gary McKenzie, John Didlick and Grant Bell – are back with an all new musical revue, And That’s When The Trouble Started, at the Rhumbelow Theatre at 42 Cunningham Road, off Bartle Road, Umbilo, from March 10 to March 12. Continue reading
Following the success of his 2016 theatre tour, magician extraordinaire Mo Magic is set to intrigue, astonish and entertain Durban audiences with his brand new theatre show titled, Moments of Wonder, at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on UKZN Howard College campus until March 12 and at the Hexagon Theatre in Pietermaritzburg from March 30 to April 1. Continue reading
FOR the March instalment of the monthly Music Revival concerts, pianist Christopher Duigan turns his hand to a light-hearted selection of charming popular classics in Tales from Grandmother’s Piano Album. Continue reading
Heading to the Schlesinger Theatre at Michaelhouse in Balgowan at 7.30pm on Friday, March 10 is The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri, a finely crafted monument to memory.
An intensely personal reconstruction of co-writer and actor, Tony Miyambo’s memories of his father, Daniel Rasenga Miyambo, the play explores an intimate father-son relationship, recalled and reconstructed through remembered moments from the past, fading images captured in sepia toned photographs, conjured up conversations , snippets of music, truths and half- truths.
It is an ancient human attempt to connect our present to the past by mapping our relationships with the one’s we love.
ESTELLE SINKINS spoke to him ahead of the performance, his first in the KZN Midlands. Continue reading
Tony Miyambo stars in ‘The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri’ at the Schlesinger Theatre at Michaelhouse. Photo: Supplied
Heading to the Schlesinger Theatre at Michaelhouse in Balgowan at 7.30pm on March 10 is The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri, a finely crafted monument to memory. Continue reading
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