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SCENE IT: Savage, spellbinding and magnificent THE VISIGOTHS at the Baxter
Beverley Brommert Savage, spellbinding and magnificent, Louis Viljoen's latest offering to erupt into the world of contemporary South...
Beverley Brommert
Jun 11, 20232 min read
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PRESS: Gripping new Louis Viljoen play, THE VISIGOTHS, premiers at the Baxter’s Masambe this June
Louis Viljoen’s new thrilling offering, THE VISIGOTHS, will keep you transfixed at every suspenseful twist and turn at the Baxter’s Masambe.
Theatre Scene Cape Town
May 9, 20233 min read
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SCENE IT: The Mother of all empty-nesters
This Afrikaans translation of French playwright Florian Zeller’s La Mère (The Mother) all but dares its audience to look away…
Maria Kearns
Apr 20, 20233 min read
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PRESS: Acclaimed DIE MOEDER, starring Sandra Prinsloo, at the Baxter this April
The multi-award-winning Afrikaans drama, Die Moeder (with English surtitles), starring  Sandra Prinsloo, at the Baxter.
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Mar 31, 20232 min read
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PRESS: ÃŽLE is back onstage at the Baxter
ÃŽLE, winner of the Gold Standard Bank Ovation at National Arts Festival 2022, is back onstage at the Baxter Theatre this May.
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Mar 29, 20232 min read
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PRESS: Winners of 58th Fleur du Cap Awards announced
It was a glittering affair at the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre in Stellenbosch on Sunday, 26 March, when the winners were announced.
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Mar 26, 20235 min read
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SCENE IT: You Can’t Outrun Meryl Streep (Or Your Past)
When the lights go up on the evocative wood cabin interior that serves as the setting of Daniel Newton’s The Ranger…
Maria Kearns
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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SPOTLIGHT: Falstaff Play Co., the new kid on the independent theatre scene
There's a new theatre production company on the theatre scene, FALSTAFF PLAY CO., the brain child of Daniel Newton and Aidan Scott.
Barbara Loots
Mar 12, 202311 min read
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SCENE IT: MY HART IS ‘N MUURBAL takes a comedic look at loss
Barbara Loots After a successful run at the 2022 Vrystaat Kunstefees, where it walked away with the best debut production bragging...
Barbara Loots
Mar 8, 20233 min read
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PRESS: Mandla Mbothwe's IKRELE LECHIZA fires up the Baxter Flipside this March
Baxter Theatre Centre "For me house and home is the African spirit of Ubuntu. It's a spirit of socialism that is carried within the heart...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Mar 6, 20233 min read
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PRESS: Baxter Zabalaza Theatre Festival, from 24 March to 1 April 2023
Western Cape’s greatest staging of fresh, innovative developmental theatre, the Baxter Zabalaza Theatre Festival, will take the stages.
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Mar 2, 20233 min read
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PRESS: Faniswa Yisa appointed curator of Baxter’s Masambe Theatre
The award-winning theatre, film and television actor, Faniswa Yisa, has been appointed as the curator of the The Baxter’s Masambe theatre,
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Mar 1, 20232 min read
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PRESS: New thriller, THE RANGERS, set to enthral all at the Baxter
Falstaff Play Co. Daniel Newton makes his directorial debut with the psycho thriller THE RANGERS, which opens at the Baxter Theatre...
Barbara Loots
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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SCENE IT: HAMLET and the missing connect
That it takes great skill to envision and realise the puppets that form an integral part of the latest staging of HAMLET is undisputed.
Barbara Loots
Feb 26, 20233 min read
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PRESS: The award-winning Mandla Mbothwe’s ‘iKrele leChiza’ fires up the Baxter this March
Award-winning director, Mandla Mbothwe’s acclaimed, iKrele leChiza…the sermon, fires up The Baxter Flipside, from 23 March to 8 April 2023.
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Feb 21, 20233 min read
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PRESS: Janni Younge's adaptation of William Shakespeare's HAMLET at The Baxter
Baxter Theatre Centre Janni Younge’s highly acclaimed adaptation of the William Shakespeare’s literary classic, Hamlet, is brought to...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Feb 9, 20233 min read
199 views
SCENE IT: Sharply witty THE GRASS WIDOW at the Baxter intrigues
Beverly Brommert "Revenge is a dish best served cold". This truism is vividly illustrated in Louis Viljoen's latest masterpiece of...
Beverley Brommert
Feb 2, 20232 min read
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SCENE IT: Punchy HANSARD reflects the present in the past at the Baxter Theatre
Barbara Loots Simon Woods' HANSARD is currently on at the Baxter Theatre, with Graham Hopkins and Fiona Ramsey, under the direction of...
Barbara Loots
Jan 31, 20232 min read
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PRESS: OEPIDUS AT COLONUS: #aftersophocles at the Baxter Flipside
Baxter Theatre Centre Oedipus at Colonus: #aftersophocles at the Baxter Flipside in February 2023, directed by Mark Fleishman, with ...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Jan 17, 20233 min read
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PRESS: Jimmy Nevis performs in The Baxter garden as part of Sun-Set@Baxter on 29 January 2023
Baxter Theatre Centre South African pop sensation, Jimmy Nevis, performs in The Baxter garden on 29 January 2023 at 6pm as the perfect...
Theatre Scene Cape Town
Jan 11, 20232 min read
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