Review: Madame Zingara presents The Celebration
You know, without us gay boys this world we live in would just be rather dull and boring. Totally meh and bleh, in fact. Case in point is the super-charming and super-talented Richard Griffin with his Madame Zingara’s Theatre of Dreams that, after 14 long months of planning, opened with a new dinner cirque production […]
THEATRE REVIEW: ONE ARM
I’ll never forget my introduction to the wonderful words and works of Tennessee Williams. It was in the early 90s and it happened late one Sunday night in a Disa Park bachelor flat where Jan, my then-boyfriend and an out-of-work actor, stayed. The film version of Williams’ The Night of the Iguana, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner […]
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ HOMOEROTIC ‘ONE ARM’ TO BE STAGED IN CAPE TOWN
Award-winning theatre production company Abrahamse & Meyer Productions will be staging One Arm, Tennessee Williams’ most provocative, hard-hitting and erotically-charged short story at Artscape in Cape Town next month. Written in 1942 and published as a limited edition that was sold under the counter in niche bookstores because it was considered “too hot” for the […]
ROCKY HORROR SCORES 3 FLEUR DU CAP AWARDS
The new hit revival of The Rocky Horror Show scored three acting prizes at the 49th annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards at Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre on Sunday 16 March. The event, as always, was a glamorous affair attended by the who’s who of the South African theatre scene. The MCs for the night were comedian Alan Committie and talk […]
CT LGBTI ACTIVIST RECEIVES HIGH FRENCH HONOUR
Ndumie Funda, the well-known Cape Town-based activist and founder of the Luleki Sizwe NGO, was last week honoured by France and inaugurated as a Knight of the French Order of Merit. The event was hosted at French Ambassador Elisabeth Barbier’s official residence in Newlands, Cape Town, and was attended by close friends and family of […]
GAYS SHINE IN FLEUR DE CAP NOMINATIONS
Facebook was very busy with congratulatory postings from, for and among SA’s theatre fraternity when the nominees for the past year’s Fleur Du Cap Theatre Awards were recently announced. This year marks the 49th annual awards ceremony that will take place at the Baxter Theatre on Sunday, 16 March. This fabulous event is a highlight […]