Represent Recommends: Waiting for Thandiwe
If you didn’t catch our interview with up-and-coming theatre director/producer Kgauza Dube, then make sure you catch her show “Waiting for Thandiwe” on at the Civic NOW! It’s warm, charming and entertaining, a great break from the stresses of life and an affordable but fulfilling night out. Support our young and full of promise artists – Go Go Go! Dates: 10-13th October 2007 – 8pm 14th October 2007 – 2pm Tickets available from Computicket @ R47 “Waiting for Thandiwe” is a witty and original South African story; the first production of the newly launched theatre company, black curtain theatre movement which aims to introduce theatre and the appreciation thereof to the demographic that represents the majority of South Africa’s population. The play is set in King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape. The main character, Lulu, is a young man who studies drama at UCT drama school in Cape Town. He is home for the school holidays and things are exactly the same as they were. Everyone thinks he is the hope of the neighbourhood…just like bra Steve (Biko) – who lived in the same street as Lulu and also went to university. No one quite understands how anyone could make a living out of “making sketches” a la Gibson Kente and Lulu ‘s mom is still the “ghetto economist” … the queen of stretching the budget! Lulu has a new girlfriend he met in Cape Town. Thandiwe is an “exile baby” who doesn’t speak a stitch of any African language. She is a well-travelled, cosmopolitan woman of the world. Despite their stark cultural differences, Lulu is smitten and itching to propose. Today, she will be making her way to Lulu’s hometown for a visit… Lulu is in a huge panic. How is he to present himself within these surroundings? Their relationship has always had an urban and sophisticated backdrop. Does he adopt the “pantsula” persona since he is in the township, is he the holy rasta, is he the sonnet-spewing intellectual or the Xhosa traditionalist? This play highlights everyday identity issues that will strike a chord with anyone. Lulama Masimini, a UCT graduate morphs into the frenzied Lulu superbly. He is no stranger to the theatre circuit, with past performances in Big Dada and Medea (Brett Bailey) amongst others. The play premiered on the fringe at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown to a great response, it had a short run at the Wits 969 Theatre Festival....
Classique is back to warm you up
Every time I look out of the window I wonder if I have been teletransported to Europe during a dank Autumn. WTF is wrong with Jozi weather this October 07? Miserable. If it doesn’t give up and you stumble into the Classique party this Saturday (after we thrash those Brazilians of course) you would be forgiven for thinking you’d been teletransported to Cape Town on an ordinary grey mizzy weather day…this weather is just so CT! (OUCH) SO warm up your disappointing spring with some soulful jazzing and lots of fun ‘cos Classique is back for their Spring installment this Saturday 13 Oct 2007 – click on the flyer for more: To get you in the weekend mood, and wash away the Thursday rainy blues, here’s your party reminder about CLASSIQUE happening this Saturday 13 October @ ROKA, so best you polish that dancing shoes and ladies spoil yourself with a new outfit, because we about to turn the heat up on the Jo’burg party scene to show everyone how we do it CAPE TOWN STYLE!!!!!!!!! All the way from Cape Town we welcome back Dj Roger the dodger and new comer to CLASSIQUE but with no introductions needed, DENVER APOLLUS aka HECTIC D from Hanover Street fame and now ripping it up @ BUNKER 9 Cape Town. Doors open 8pm and cc is R50 ……..Come party in TRUE Cape Town style…. PS: Don’t forget to catch the fabulous Joe Barber 4 show starting this week at the Market Theater in Newtown. We caught the show last night at the media opening and BOETA GAMAT and BOETA JOE had the packed theater in stitches , watch out for Washilea she certainly stole the show for us J . And as our loyal CLASSIQUE friends we will be giving away tickets for you to see the show so be there Saturday night! …. Who knows it might be you sitting in the front row for the show. Regards and see you Saturday...
Our Favourite Magazine goes Online
You know we’re kind of fussy about what we lurve… So when we tell you we LURVE something or we ‘recommend’ it, it means we give it the Represent stamp of approval, which we hope bears some kind of weight. Our favourite local magazine, ONE SMALL SEED, which we hope you all invest your R40 bucks in whenever you see another fabulous edition, has just gone digital with their brand new website where you can lap up their intelligent, visionary content and download the avant-latest edition mahala. Now OSS are guys who have superb taste and a firm grip of SA’s pop culture. Know that if it’s in ONE SMALL SEED it’s top of it’s game. That’s why we’d like to thank Guiseppe and his team for the glowing and highly complimentary review of our blogazine Represent in this month’s edition… We are honoured to be included! 😉 Start collecting OSS now – it’s never too late to start learning and get informed. (PS: Guiseppe I am still waiting for the...
FreshlyGround home at last
It’s the classic scenario with so many of our brilliant SA talents – Marcus Wyatt, JustJinger, Tumi, Siya Makuzeni, Soweto Gospel Choir and even T-Boz (yes… Mr P!) and JC (yes the waistcoat wearing white Zulu). So often they spend more time in Europe playing to adoring foreign fans that we wonder if they’ve immigrated. There’s something sad about the fact that our stars are lapped up overseas yet often play to half-full halls here at home with super chipile door prices that can’t make them any money – but… like a lot of things… we’re used to it. Our wonderful musical diplomats Freshly Ground are about to go on their first national tour (well in a long time anyway) here ekhaya and we urge you to buy your ticket and get amongst… PS: Guys – thanks for your Potbelly song, it confirms what us voluptuous people always suspected – that we rock! Details below. It’s been three years since FRESHLYGROUND last released a studio album. Since then this Cape Town based seven-piece has become nothing short of a popular music sensation, selling 250 000 copies of 2004’s ‘Nomvula’, earning an MTV Europe Music Award, racking up huge radio airplay and performing live before a massive number of people. The band has toured extensively over the last two years across Southern Africa and Europe, and they have plans to tackle Australia and the US over the next couple of years. All this and Freshlyground have yet to tour South Africa! Freshlyground, Volkswagen South Africa and Gearhouse are pleased to announce that from early next month – all that will change! The band’s new album ‘Ma’cheri’ was released locally in September. Spurred by their current smash hit ‘Pot Belly’, the amazing album has already racked up Platinum plus sales status. To promote the record and re-connect with the largest possible number of their loyal South African fans, the band is to embark on a spectacular four city National Tour, running from the 2nd to the 11th of November. The band and their management decided to put the tour together themselves without the assistance of a promoter: “Firstly, live performance is key for Freshlyground, and we wish to retain total creative control over the tour. Even more importantly, we’ve chosen to do it ourselves as a move towards empowering the band – and hopefully South African musicians as a whole – who often take a back seat when it comes to supporting international tours. This country hosts major international acts every year, yet few promoters are willing to risk touring local musicians on this scale.” says Freshlyground manager Sevi Spanoudi. As the title sponsor of this tour, Volkswagen...
Why not Simpsonise
We been wondering how come so many Facebook photo’s look like the Simpson’s – then we found out about Simpsonise Me – a website that let’s you upload a photo of yourself and turn yourself yellow (Simpsonise yo’self) to look like a Simpson. It’s put together by Burger King, the sponsor behind the upcoming Simpsons movie, as a viral way of spreading the association and celebrating the launch of the full-length movie. It’s fun – click here to...
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