Residents (and September visitors) of New York City – you are soooo lucky! It is sure to be an unforgettable theatrical experience.
Sacred Elephant, the beautifully lyrical and heart-stirring dramatic monologue by Heathcote Williams that has been transformed into a one-man stage play by director Geoffrey Hyland and talented actor Jeremy Crutchley, is coming to New York City.
I’m sure that one-person plays must be particularly challenging for an actor. The success – or failure – of the entire performance rests solely on your shoulders. No one helps you to weave that spell on your audience, ever-so-gently guiding your viewers to bond with the characters you are portraying onstage. It is solely up…
The quaint little village of Darling, more or less an hour’s drive north of Cape Town off the R27, and midway between Yzerfontein and Malmesbury, is the home of South Africa’s most famous White lady: Evita Bezuidenhout. She lives and performs at a most unusual theatrical venue: Darling’s old railway station, which has been lovingly…
Two weeks ago, I was given the wonderful opportunity to go backstage at the Baxter Theatre to attend two rehearsals of one of the most famous stage comedy shows in South Africa at this time: Joe Barber. It is now in its tenth year – which, according to David Isaacs, one of the men behind…
Last week, we were treated to a hilarious evening at the Baxter Theatre (a huge thank you to Heinrich and Cherona for the tickets). Hubs, myself, and two friends of ours who had only recently tied the knot, attended a side-splitting performance of Stuart Taylor’s most recent one-man show, Learner Husband. Essentially, the show is…
I am looking forward with happy anticipation to an evening at the theatre next week Tuesday. My oldest friend from school days and I are going to see a performance of I Am My Own Wife at the Baxter Studio. It was so popular during its run in July and August, that it has come…
I am my own wife, the fantastic one-man/woman play starring Jeremy Crutchley, acteur extraordinaire, is returning to the Baxter Theatre from 27 October to 7 November 2009 (see Baxter Theatre). The play was written by Doug Wright, and is directed by Janice Honeyman. The venue, like last time, will be the small and intimate Baxter…
On Tuesday night, we attended an extraordinary, spell-binding performance of I Am My Own Wife (Wikipedia), a play written by Doug Wright. The venue was the small and intimate Baxter Studio upstairs. It was packed; I don’t think there was a single empty seat. It is a one-wo/man show (although that one man takes on…
Last week Friday, we met friends of ours at the open air theatre in Maynardville, Wynberg, to watch a performance of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”. We arrived an hour before the show, so that we could still have a picnic on the green lawns of the park surrounding the stage, and to catch up…
Can you imagine watching a film noir performed on stage that contains the line “My handbag is full of chickens”? Or “I can’t let go of my ankles”? No? Then you’ve never been to the sensational TheatreSports! Tonight, we took two of our friends to see (and to some extent participate in) TheatreSports at the tiny…
We just came back from a rollicking fun evening out at the Baxter Theatre together with two friends whom we hadn’t seen for a long time. We had dinner at the Baxter Restaurant before the show, which we’d never done before. Although the buffet there is on the expensive side if you can’t eat large…
Grains of Sand 
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