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SCENE IT: Sweet Shirley takes you on an adventure at Theatre on the Bay
Barbara Loots SHIRLEY VALENTINE, currently onstage at Theatre on the Bay, brings a sense of familiarity that feels like you are sitting...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Feb 21, 20223 min read
SCENE IT: An exploration of sex, love & tinder-dating in HOW TO DATE LIKE A F*#$ING GROWNUP
Barbara Loots It was with great excitement that we took our seats to see HOW TO DATE LIKE A F*#$ING GROWNUP at Gallery44 and Theatre....
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Feb 15, 20223 min read
SCENE IT: Schimmel bares heart and soul in MORE THAN A HANDFUL
Barbara Loots MORE THAN A HANDFUL is a drama with music about overcoming obstacles and realising that not everything that shimmers and...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Jan 17, 20223 min read
SCENE IT: Journeys within journeys at CONSTELLATIONS
Theatre Scene Cape Town The Brett Bailey conceptualised CONSTELLATIONS: CAMPFIRE GATHERINGS opened this week at Spier Wine Farm. The...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Nov 28, 20213 min read
SCENE IT: A convergence of opposites in THE LADY AOI
Barbara Loots With the current staging of the THE LADY AOI at the Artscape Arena Theatre, Abrahamse and Meyer Productions gives South...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Nov 21, 20213 min read
SCENE IT: ALCHEMY at the Artscape is pure ballet magic
Barbara Loots ALCHEMY - THREE DANCES is Cape Town City Ballet's vibrant spring offering, onstage at the Artscape Opera House until 13...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Nov 9, 20212 min read
SCENE IT: 8th SAIBC Celebrated Ballet ‘as we like it’
Theatre Scene Cape Town On Saturday, 23 October 2021, we had the privilege of attending the GALA performance of the 8th SA International...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Oct 27, 20214 min read
SCENE IT: MEPHISTO Rises Again
Barbara Loots Over the years Cape Town has been treated to the talent of up-and-coming actors, such as the Mechanicals, with performances...
Barbara Loots
Aug 29, 20212 min read
SCENE IT: Reflecting on the courage of THE UNLIKELY SECRET AGENT
Barbara Loots The Drama Factory, in Somerset West, is currently home to the play, THE UNLIKELY SECRET AGENT, created by writer, actor and...
Barbara Loots
Jun 17, 20214 min read
SCENE IT: NOIR, a true tease!
Barbara Loots FollowSpot Productions' latest naughty-but-nice cabaret-offering is NOIR, and it is a tantalising delight in their new Kalk...
Barbara Loots
Apr 19, 20212 min read
SCENE IT: Teasing, tantalizing EROS at Gate69
Barbara Loots Life needs a reset way back to the first apple… and the Trolley Dollies™ are ready to push all the buttons to do just that....
Barbara Loots
Apr 6, 20212 min read
SCENE IT: 11th Zabalaza Festival a celebration of life
Barbara Loots There is no denying that the theatre industry has been hardest hit by the impact of the Covid-19 devastation in South...
Barbara Loots
Mar 24, 20212 min read
SCENE IT: ManBand.II brings the new KBT vibe —it’s a treat!
Barbara Loots The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been far-reaching, with the arts taking some of the biggest hits. So, it was with...
Barbara Loots
Nov 9, 20202 min read
SCENE IT: Muckridge, the vengeful cowboy for the broken man
Mariana Malan Decades ago a local group The Staccatos had a hit with “Cry to me”. In a teenager’s frame of reference they described...
Mariana Malan
Oct 19, 20202 min read
SCENE IT: From Broadway to Bird Street give theatre hope
From FROM BROADWAY TO BIRD STREET jumps from the 2020 Woordfees stage onto your streaming screens with pure panache.
Barbara Loots
Aug 16, 20203 min read
SCENE IT: The joy of CAT & LUCY
Barbara Loots Luring the audience in with beautiful vocals and a lovely rendition of ‘That’s Life’ (which will make any Frank Sinatra...
Barbara Loots
Mar 4, 20202 min read
SCENE IT: WHEN WE AWAKE, powerful storytelling at the Baxter
Barbara Loots WHEN WE AWAKE at the Baxter Theatre is a colourful telling of a dark tale, a rhyme with (apparently) no reason, all which...
Barbara Loots
Feb 24, 20202 min read
SCENE IT: WOOLWORTHS, a shout in the Dark
Maria Vos After a dark, ominous opening full of menacing footsteps and panicked scurrying, Juliet Jenkin’s ‘choral satire’ WOOLWORTHS...
Maria Kearns
Feb 20, 20202 min read
SCENE IT: THE PRODUCERS, a robust source of comedy
Beverley Brommert Dour is the theatregoer who can resist chuckling more or less continuously at the proceedings of Mel Brooks’ characters...
Beverley Brommert
Feb 13, 20202 min read
SCENE IT: Childlike fun with PETER PAN ON ICE
Barbara Loots JM Barrie’s beloved Peter Pan just got a new playground of ice on which to glide on over to Neverland. Peter and friends...
Barbara Loots
Jan 27, 20203 min read
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