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Profile: The Fugard Theatre
Cnr Harrington & Caledon St, District 6 Named after the great South African playwright Athol Fugard, this theatre’s ambience is matched by few in Cape Town. History: Fugard Theatre is located...
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Review: Die Kaptein Se Tier
Die Tier is writing the most incredible piece of literature the world has ever read. With a picture of his mother as his muse and an illiterate mechanic as a sounding board, how could he fail? The...
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Review: Master Harold and the Boys
To present this classic Athol Fugard play at the renowned Fugard Theatre is any director’s dream. Yet, maybe a local equivalent of producing Shakespeare at the Globe, it is also a task accompanied by...
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Review: Champ
Louis Viljoen’s Champ won best new script at the Fleur du Cap awards last year and the grimy, controversial nature of his comedy makes it easy to see why his work has attracted significant critical...
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Review: The Monteverdi Project Part II: Heart / Attack
“Bravo!” shouted the lady sitting next to us at the end of Heart / Attack, as the audience clambered to its feet, emotionally applauding the Cape Consort after a superb performance at the Fugard...
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Review: Open Book Festival 2014
It is always interesting to see who attends a festival. Would the first day of the Open Book Festival be dominated by retired folk and part time poets? Absolutely not. All manner of people were...
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World Cinema
Every Sunday The Fugard Bioscope brings the best opera, ballet and theatre around the world. Venue: The Fugard Theatre Bioscope, cnr Harrington & Caledon St, Cape Town Time: 11am Cost: R 100 Tel:...
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Review: The Pervert Laura
The Pervert Laura presents a troubled mind. Then it rips away bloody chunks of would-be sanity to reveal the disturbing soul that has been lurking beneath all along. Written by Louis Viljoen in the...
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Review: Heart of Redness
A mishmash of emotion, I shifted nervously in my chair, an opera virgin awaiting deflowering by The Cape Town Opera Company. Zakes Mda’s novel, Heart of Redness, is one of my favourite books, and I...
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Bad Jews
27 October to 21 November 2015 The South African premiere of Joshua Harmon’s West End hit is a comic take on a domestic battle of honour, faith and heritage. Featuring Lara Lipschitz (Cabaret, Jersey...
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District Six – Kanala
2 February to 5 March 2016 Eric Abraham and The Fugard Theatre present District Six – Kanala, a musical homage to the thriving, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural community that was once District Six,...
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Review: District Six – Kanala
Photo credit: Jesse Kate Kramer It’s hard to pick one, two or even three best parts of David Kramer’s latest masterpiece, District Six – Kanala. It delivers, over and over. Loud and vibrant, filled...
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Open Book Festival
7 to 11 September 2016 Discussions, readings and performances that foster an appreciation of literature by well-known writers such as Antjie Krog and cartoonists like Zapiro is the crux of the Open...
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Review: The Kingmakers
In the steely boardrooms of the corporate political machine, nothing is ever as it seems. Double Fleur du Cap winner for Best New Script and Best New Director, The Kingmakers is the brainchild of Louis...
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Abdullah Ibrahim
4 April 2016 Cape Jazz pianist and composer Abdullah Ebrahim takes the stage for one night only to play the music spanning over his 70 year career in a solo piano concert. Venue: The Fugard Theatre,...
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Albert Frost CD Launch
21 & 22 April 2016 Releasing his first full length studio album, The Wake-up, Albert Frost performs alongside bass guitarist Schalk Joubert and drummer Jonno Sweetman to deliver the blues and rock...
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Review: The Monteverdi Project Part II: Heart / Attack
“Bravo!” shouted the lady sitting next to us at the end of Heart / Attack, as the audience clambered to its feet, emotionally applauding the Cape Consort after a superb performance at the Fugard...
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Review: Champ
Louis Viljoen’s Champ won best new script at the Fleur du Cap awards last year and the grimy, controversial nature of his comedy makes it easy to see why his work has attracted significant critical...
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Review: Master Harold and the Boys
To present this classic Athol Fugard play at the renowned Fugard Theatre is any director’s dream. Yet, maybe a local equivalent of producing Shakespeare at the Globe, it is also a task accompanied by...
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Bad Jews
The West End smash hit, Bad Jews returns. A family heirloom propels cousins Daphna (devoutly Jewish) and Liam (a secular and entitled young man detached from his culture) into a domestic battle of...
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