South Africa:   Beckett Revisited On the Fringe

Cue Online, 4 July 2012

This week, Krapp is resurrected. Samuel Beckett's character in Krapp's Last Tape comes back to life on the stage of the Victoria Theatre. This time, it is Lionel Newton, the 2002… Read more »

South Africa:   Missing Out On World-Class Films

Cue Online, 4 July 2012

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!" the English film director Derek Jarman once said. But given some movie buffs' comments, he might have been the only one in the audience… Read more »

South Africa:   Volkher's Phallusy

Cue Online, 4 July 2012

I suppose it is my phallic obsession," said Volkher von Lengeling, co-owner of the Yellow Piano Inn, explaining how the adult-only exhibition Phallos came into existence. Such… Read more »

South Africa:   School Jazz Talents Face the Music

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

There's nothing like a big band - except three of them. And that's what we got last night in the second of the two School/Youth Bands shows. Read more »

South Africa:   Back to Butoh

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

Their eyes roll back in their heads. They shamble forwards, seemingly both mindless and purposeful, vacant and controlled. One could be forgiven for fleeing what seems to be a… Read more »

South Africa:   Life As We Know It Exposed Through Dance

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

Durban's award-winning Flatfoot Dance Company has made the leap from Fringe to Arena this year with Southern Exposure: A Double Bill, comprising powerful explorations of women… Read more »

South Africa:   Beguiling Boikanyo and an Orchestra of Rare Quality

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

Guest concert master of the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, American violinist Joanna Frankel, continued her fine form in leading this prestigious orchestra with assurance… Read more »

South Africa:   Buoyant Bonnefoy in Charge

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

It is rare in South Africa that jazz concerts include ensembles other than the typical instrumental formats of either the smaller forces (trio, quartet, and so on) or the… Read more »

South Africa:   No Cut-Price Laughs in This Gentle Comedy Gem

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

Have you ever walked into a deathly-quiet shop and been unnerved by the vaguely desperate expressions on the assistants' faces, hoping against hope for a sale? Meet the staffers at… Read more »

South Africa:   Big Cameras, Little Eyes

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art, Mikhael Subotzky features an exhibition that charts a complex journey through the history of his documentary oeuvre. Read more »

South Africa:   Masterpieces Born of Frustration

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

Two young French choreographers based in New York in 1984 found themselves alienated by the stylistic conventions of the Manhattan dance world. Read more »

South Africa:   The Art of Collapsibility

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

It's a build-up and break-down business, up one moment and down the next, and emergency rebuilds become routine. This is the changing world of set design, where work and effort… Read more »

South Africa:   Iconic Horror Film Revisited

Cue Online, 2 July 2012

What happens when a director explores similar themes in related films 40 years apart? Darkly comedic, erotic at times and grippingly surprising, The Wicker Man and The Wicker Tree… Read more »

South Africa:   UK Film-Maker Hits Town

Cue Online, 1 July 2012

I used to make art that looked like I threw scrambled eggs onto a canvas. I wasn't going to make a living, so I moved into film and television - essentially I'm a storyteller; I… Read more »

South Africa:   A Comedy of Unforeseen Errors

Cue Online, 1 July 2012

On the first day of their arrival in Grahamstown, the Johannesburg cast of Discounted, a comedic Fringe production about a failing business, had a bag with key elements of their… Read more »

South Africa:   South African Short Films Are Cinematizing

Cue Online, 30 June 2012

The portrayal of individual life and investigations into the relationships between people are recurrent themes in the Fringe's Cinemazing Short Films package. Margot and the Dolls,… Read more »

South Africa:   Closed Circuit - Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees With Mikhael Subotzky

Cue Online, 29 June 2012

It is suggested that the private security industry in South Africa is one of the largest in the world, with access-controlled gated communities characterised by electric fences,… Read more »

South Africa:   Reflecting Life

Cue Online, 29 June 2012

Cedric Nunn is not a tall man. Dark eyebrows slashed with grey sit beneath his black and white checkered cloth cap. He stands with his arms crossed over his chest and his legs… Read more »

South Africa:   Tipping the Gallery - a Social Turn?

Cue Online, 29 June 2012

This may not be the first time that the visual arts component of the Festival expands beyond and disrupts the conservatism that has long characterised the gallery space. Read more »

South Africa:   Cinema to Challenge the Mind

Cue Online, 29 June 2012

This year's Film Festival may be regarded as a reflection of, and resistance to the status quo in contemporary society. Trevor Steele Taylor, curator of the Film Festival… Read more »

South Africa:   San Dances At Home in the Eastern Cape

Cue Online, 29 June 2012

The San were musical pioneers and, being nomads, they travelled throughout Southern Africa interacting with each and every tribe of people they encountered. San musical… Read more »

South Africa:   Origins of Dance

Cue Online, 28 June 2012

It's not only South Africans who pride themselves as descendants of the San, often described as the most ancient culture in the world. "We all have this connection with the San as… Read more »

South Africa:   Boikanyo's Heavenly Voice

Cue Online, 28 June 2012

Her school never had a full-time choir, relying on ad-hoc arrangements for specific occasions or competitions. During one such event, a reluctant Kelebogile Boikanyo (24), was… Read more »

South Africa:   Little Foot Brought to Life On the Stage

SA Info, 26 June 2012

One of South Africa's most famous hominins, Little Foot from the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site, has been incarnated in a play that has travelled around the UK - and is… Read more »

South Africa:   SA Post Office to Sponsor Student Theatre Festival

Biz-Community, 25 June 2012

The Student Theatre Festival at Grahamstown's National Arts Festival will this year be sponsored by the South African Post Office. Over the years the Student Theatre Festival has… Read more »

South Africa:   KBT Productions Presents Seven Projects At Arts Festival

Biz-Community, 18 June 2012

KBT Productions, producer of the multiple award-winning London Road, is presenting no less than seven projects at this year's National Arts Festival (NAF) in Grahamstown. Read more »

South Africa:   Performance Art Prickles

Cue Online, 15 June 2012

Festival audiences will be able to immerse themselves in an unusual array of performance art presentations in conventional and unusual festival spaces. Audiences can expect… Read more »

South Africa:   The Trouble With Authenticity

Cue Online, 10 June 2012

If the contemporary situation in Africa can be compared to the aftermath of a rape by colonial cultures (as Jay Pather maintains), then some of the Festival's endeavours to… Read more »

South Africa:   Cacadu Takes Centre Stage

Cue Online, 15 June 2012

The Cacadu District of the Eastern Cape is the soil from which no fewer than 42 National Arts Festival 2012 Fringe productions have grown this year. Productions from Grahamstown,… Read more »

South Africa:   Arts and Culture Projects, Strategy to Create Thousands of Jobs

BuaNews, 4 May 2012

The Department of Arts and Culture is aiming to create tens of thousands of jobs through its rolling out of 28 heritage projects and with the launch of various new programmes under… Read more »

South Africa:   Award-Winning Productions for Grahamstown's Festival Arena

Biz-Community, 9 May 2012

The 2012 National Arts Festival Arena programme will feature new productions presented by winners of the 2011 Standard Bank Ovation Awards. The festival runs from 28 June to 8 July… Read more »

South Africa:   The Space Between Truth and Deceit - Enter Hamlet

West Cape News, 28 May 2012

THEATRE REVIEW: Sie Weiss Alles Read more »