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
WHEN Alice and her brother, Nick, hear that her parents, Dana and Steve, are getting a divorce, they are less than impressed and decide to stop it from happening. The result is a dramedy, It’s Not Your Fault, which is being directed by Ndili Stamper, and can be seen at the Seabrooke’s Theatre at Durban High School in Musgrave from March 10 to 19. Continue reading
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
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
PUPILS from Michaelhouse and Treverton will be performing German playwright Bertolt Brecht‘s Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Schlesinger Theatre at Michaelhouse next week.
Directed by William le Cordeur, the play, which can be seen at 7.30 pm on Thursday, March 3 and 2 pm on Friday, March 4, runs for one hour and 45 minutes with no interval. Continue reading
The Singh Siblings (an artistic collaboration between Ashwin Singh and Shantal Singh), in association with Daphne Kuhn will be presenting award-winning playwright, Ashwin Singh’s comedy-drama Beyond the Big Bangs at the Auto and General Theatre on the Square in Sandton, Johannesburg from March 1 to 12.
The play, which is also directed by Ashwin Singh, features Shona Johnson (Durban Theatre Award-winner for B!*ch Stole My Doek), Chantal Snyman and Annalisa Gxabu.
It premiered to acclaim at the Playhouse Company’s South African Women’s Arts Festival in August 2014 and continues Ashwin Singh’s legacy as an innovative creator of authentic, multi-cultural South African work and features in his 2013 anthology Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice, published by British publishers, Aurora Metro Books. Continue reading
Jonathan Cohen appears in his first one-man show next month, in Clinton Marius’s ‘White Christmas’. Photo: Val Adamson
Copy Dog presents the one-man tragi-comedy, White Christmas, written and directed by Clinton Marius, and starring the gifted young Durban-based actor, Jonathan Cohen, making his role debut in this challenging piece which runs at Seabrooke’s Theatre in Musgrave from March 3 to 6. Continue reading
Anthony Stonier (left) and Darren King in The Art of Being Ugly.
ONE of the greatest elements of pantomime is the tradition of the pantomime dame, played by a male actor in fabulous costume. Two of Durban’s finest exponents of this art – Darren King and Anthony Stonier – take to the stage at the Hexagon Theatre on March 4 and 5 to celebrate the panto dame in the comedy, The Art of Being Ugly. Continue reading
The multi-awardwinning Neon Anthems team are back with their most ambitious show todate.
Written by and starring Jacobus Van Heerden (above, and recently seen as Lord Farquaad in KickstArt’s Shrek) and directed by Liam Magner, Superchop is a satirical comedy which parodies the famous, and those desperate to be famous.
Catch it at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College campus in Durban from March 2 to 13. Continue reading
Opening at the Fugard Theatre tonight is The Kingmakers, which runs at the Cape Town venue from February 23 to March 19. Continue reading
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