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Review: Expectant
Nothing can quite prepare you for what happens on stage upstairs at the Alexander Bar. The blurb for Penny Youngleson’s Expectant describes it as “a coming of age story told against the backdrop of a...
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Review: Smaarties
Smaarties, currently running at Alexander Bar & Theatre, needs little introduction. The award-winning drama about a young man vexed by mental illness, loss and the pain of disconnection, has wowed...
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Review: Sonia Esguiera in Love & Prozac
Cape Town’s full of them: fun, funny (and perhaps slightly quirky) single ladies who have crossed the dirty 30’s mark. And who have all but given up on the idea of a knight in shining armour. In her...
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Review: Dorothy Parker
It’s impossible to encapsulate the full extent of Dorothy Parker’s magnetic works – the various nuanced writings of someone who was a poet, a short story writer, a critic, a political activist and a...
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Review: The Frontiersmen (Cape Town Fringe)
Starring Nicholas Pauling and Mark Elderkin, and directed by Greg Karvellas, The Frontiersmen is a venomously poetic two hander following the plots and pains of two South African property developers...
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Review: Hello and Goodbye
Athol Fugard is renowned for provocative work highlighting our apartheid era and the road to democracy. Yet with Hello and Goodbye, one of his earlier plays set during the 60’s, politics takes a back...
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Review: The Open Couple
When a young cast takes on a lesser known work of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated playwrights, one could not be blamed for feeling a bit apprehensive. But in the case of the production of...
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Review: The Swell
The Swell, currently showing at the Alexander Upstairs, explores the somewhat warped headspace of a woman who spends her days in a shallow inflatable pool in a garage. On the premise of investigating a...
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Review: Cock
One central, raised white block and four actors share a stage surrounded by audience on three sides. There is no set to speak of, no props, no sound effects other than music, no lighting except for the...
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Review: Play Things
Surprises. The unexpected. The unforeseen. That’s the description of the weekly open mic show according to Alexander Bar’s website. True enough, I was pleasantly surprised at the variety of genres...
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