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
Maritzburg Musician’s Club – one of the longest running ‘folk clubs’ in South Africa along with Four Winds in Port Elizabeth and Barleycorn in Cape Town – will be hosting Cape Town’s folk-punk duo, The Shabeen, at La Casa in Quarry Road, Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, March 8. Continue reading
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
DURBAN’S Rhumbelow Theatre in Cunningham Avenue, off Bartle Road, is hosting Cest la Vie, That’s Life baby with Beat-Route on Friday, March 11 at 8 pm, Saturday, March 2 at 8 pm and Sunday, March 13 at 2 pm and 6.30 pm. Continue reading
Dave Monks
Enjoy some early St Patrick’s Day celebrations at the Rhumbelow Theatre at the Allan Wilson Shellhole in Alan Paton Road, Pietermaritzburg on Sunday, Maarch 13 at 2 pm and 6.30 pm. 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
British actress Charlotte Salt (pictured), will attend the premiere of the new South African film Modder en Bloed (Blood and Glory) on March 10 at The Zone in Rosebank, Johannesburg. Charlotte plays the role of Katherine Sterndale in this South African period war drama. 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
Ekaterina Krysanova and Vladislav Lantratov in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Taming of the Shrew.
The Taming of the Shrew will be screened at 11 am on March 6 as part of the Fugard Bioscope World Arts Season.
French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot has adapted Shakespeare’s comedy specifically to the Bolshoi Ballet dancers, and achieves a magnetic two hours of breathtaking, nonstop dance unlike any other.
The story revolves around Bianca. Many suitors dream of marrying the lovely and docile lady, including Lucentio. However her father will not let anyone marry her before her elder sister, the ill-tempered shrew Katherina, is herself married.
Tickets for the screening at the Fugard Theatre are R100. The show is two hours and 10 minutes long.
