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Spotlight: Can the real Ovation please stand up?
Do you ever feel peer pressured to rise to your feet and applaud with great enthusiasm in response to a production that you found...


Press: Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny
Winner of a Gold Ovation Award winner at this year’s National Arts Festival, Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny is directed by Roslyn...


Scene It: Vivid impressions of life and the psyche in Athol Fugard’s People are living there at Gall
When theatre performances impress you and make you crave for more, you know it’s been a good theatre night out. Such is the case with...


Spotlight: Alfred Rietmann’s real life ‘phantom’ encounters…
With Halloween approaching this weekend, we asked around if our beloved Cape Town theatres have any Caspers or phantoms residing in them…...
Spotlight: Director Greg Karvellas talks Bad Jews and all things theatre at the Fugard
When we heard the news that West End sensation Bad Jews was being staged at the Fugard Theatre, we knew we’d want to sit down with...


Scene It: A round-about journey of history with Orpheus in Africa at the Fugard Theatre
The purpose of theatre productions, I’ve always thought, is to make you question what you know, to ponder what you believe and make...


Scene It: Die Seemeeu, dark comedy genius at its best!
It’s alive! Theatre is alive! Christiaan Olwagen found Chekov, administered some creative CPR and breathed new life into classic...


Press: Mdu Kweyama, breathes new life into Reza de Wet’s Missing
Baxter 2015 artist-in-residence, Mdu Kweyama, breathes new life into Reza de Wet’s Missing, translated into English from her classic Mis,...


Press: Creative explosion for premiere of contemporary epic Four Small Gods
A creative explosion of talent will bring Joanna’s Evans’ Four Small Gods to life on stage at Magnet Theatre from 30 October to 10...


Press: People are living
People are living there by Athol Fugard and adapted and directed by Blythe Linger and Kathleen Stephens, is to be staged at the Galloway...
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