The Market Theatre Flips the script!
Another play for your pleasure and it’s back by popular demand for a reason folks, go find out what it is! Title: Flipping the script Brought to you: This play is part of the Women in Arts Festival, presented by Transnet Foundation in association with the Newtown Improvement District and Arts Alive. How do you feel about a woman who can freely say “I a…m as patriotic as the next but I would choose a Nigerian man over a local lover anyday. Let’s not front SA men know jack-sh*t about romance!”? South African brothers, what say you? The storyline: Fikile, 29 years old, has attitude and vision and believes that if a woman has vision in this country, she has to have attitude! Fikile joins Gogo, a 73 year old woman born in the 1930’s in KwaZulu Natal, Zainab a 35 year old Muslim woman and Amanda a middle aged white woman who has seen better days! The four women tell their stories, about love, life and spices! Each character is written by a different writer from her own class, race, cultural, age and religious perspective in keeping with the international feminist position of ‘intersectionality’. Flipping the script, was written by Catherine Mlangeni, Zubeda Dangor, Nonzi Bogatsu, Dorothy Brislin and Bobby Rodwell. Produced and Directed by Bobby Rodwell, the play features veteran actor Connie Mfuku, with Charlotte Butler, Leeanda Reddy and Nomonde Mbusi. The play has performed in Johannesburg at the Market Theatre Laboratory in November 2004, Grahamstown Festival in July 2005, and the National School of the Arts Festival of Fame in May 2006. Responses have been that it is refreshing to see issues and debates around womens sexuality on South African stage, a topic that is usually taboo. Having each character written by an independent writer has made flipping the script! an interesting and multi textured play! Go and check it out. Dates:09 – 13 Aug 2006, Wed – Sat 20h15, Sun 15h15 Venue: Laager Theatre Price: All performances R 65 only! ************************************* Take a trip into our past with this classic story retold on stage at the Market Theatre in July. Written by the legendary Es’kia Mphahlele and featuring some of our favourite thespians, including Siyabonga Twala and Mncedisi Shabangu and directed by James Ngcobo – it’s sure to be a hit. The Suitcase Adapted and directed by James Ngcobo from the short story by Es’kia Mphahlele A moment, a hope, a choice! The Suitcase Barney Simon Theatre – Market Theatre 19 July – 20 August Tues – Sat 20h15 Sun – 15h15 Es’kia Mphahlele’s The Suitcase, adapted and directed by James Ngcobo, is coming to...
CLUB 115 TAKES YOU BACK!
We love the old school and keeping you in the loop with what’s on in the UNDERGROUND.Drift back with us… Think of DJ’s back in the day. When house music stole your soul. Now think of a party that includes all your favourite weekend habitats: 206, Fourth World, Foundation, Sublime, Reality and Carnalita. You’ll also remember the STYLE OF PLAY,… WHEN IT WAS STRICTLY VINYLS and radio Djs couldn’t find the tracks you played? Those Djs were the groundbreakers, the torchbearers, the innovators and pioneers. They are Djs of a revolutionary kind who inspired and continue to inspire todays ‘hot’ young talent in an industry they helped to establish. They are the people that produce world-class dance music, own top record labels and work behind the counters of SA’S finest record stores. They are, and will remain the people who make the music that moves you! Take a trip down memory lane withDJ CLIVE, PHAT JACK, TAVI, THE COHAN BROS and STATIC P on the Friday the 4th of August and Friday the 1st of September at Club 115! BRACE YOURSELVES! IT’S GONNA BE ON...
Mo’ POP at the Moja Modern!
South African born and German educated artist Lauren Hegele is back on African soil -her poppish bright fabulara art looks awesome – inspiring artists – go and check her out! Lauren tells a story through her awesome pop inspired canvases. Mastering acrylic paint, her technique is detailed to perfection and her workmanship is impressively eviden…t. She builds layers up to create a rich, vital dream world. Her paintings are humorous and bright, a real treat. She has been living in Germany with her husband and daughter where she started painting big, lucky for us she’s back on African soil! View her website here. Running till July 18 MojaModern Art Gallery 16 Seventh Avenue Parktown North Tel 011 447 9000 Fax 011 447 9002 E-mail Website www.mojamodern.co.za...
Carnivore v ThunderGun v Sanza @ Spaza Art
Well we finally got around to doing some food reviews… This past weekend we went to three completely different restaurants to check them out and let you know what we think… Friday was dedicated to a dinner at Carnivore, situated just off Beyers Naude out at the Misty Hills hotel… We had heard all about Carnivore and the… thought of meat meat and more meat was definitely a puller for us non-herbivores….The restaurant was almost full at 8pm on a Friday… large groups of tourists feasted on venison next to Black and White South Africans all tucking into their inyama. The decor was a little ‘cliched’ and looking tired, the theme being African and Wildlife, this was to be expected. But as my dining partner commented, “it’s perfect for the African safari desired by eager tourists…it gives them what they fantasize about” – but it was a little gaudy and over the top for us. The way Carnivore’s works is that you pay a set menu fee, around R175 a head, you then feast on a three course meal. Starting off with a delicious butternut soup we moved onto the meat and salads… luckily the waiter told us about the ‘surrender flag’ – a little paper flag that you lower from your well-laden lazy Susan when you just can’t take anymore meat. You will surrender. The waiters ciculate with huge chunks of meat or sausages, offering you 14 different types of meat that you can devour. The waiters were friendly if not a little “cliched” themselves, brimming with quirky Carnivore spirit and tip-obligated friendliness… It worked. We didn’t have space for desert after the indulgment of the meat on offer and staggared out of Carnivore feeling very satisfied but a little bored on the experience side. We give it a 6 out of 10. But you know we’re fussy. CARNIVORE “Muldersdrift Estate” 69 Drift Boulevard Muldersdrift 1747 Tel (+27 11) 950-6061 Saturday required a trip to the famous burger joint on Beyers Naude, ThunderGun Steakhouse… Stories of death-defying burgers and solid hangover cure food lured us in. Our first impression on entrance was that we had stepped into an English-style pub, with most of the patrons appearing to be white middle-aged British ex-pats…A suprising consistency at the tables both inside and outside the restaurant. Looking straight into the carpark, there’s not much of a view here so the food must be the attraction, we guessed. We were right. It certainly wasn’t the kitch “land of Haiwatha” decor that graced the walls, totem polls and all. Clearly the decor was a direct translation of the menu, with the cowboy and...
We get up close with BRUNO of ONE EXIT!
Here’s another local Brand that Represent brings to you You know we are about everything original. We hooked up with another Brother in Fashion and got an up close with him. Go and check out his work and support South African style. REPRESENT our talent. Be a true ZA R – Name? B – Bruno Mungofa R – Occupation? B – Lecturer at Studio05 School o… f Fashion. Designer and Owner of Clothing Label R – Name of label? B – One Exit R – Where does it come from? B – Me. It’s one exit from city life, the hectic-ness of everything that’s hectic I guess J R – What is the Brand Identity? B – Street/ Urban R – What is Street to you? Define that… B – For me it’s comfortable clothes. Clothes that nobody tells you to wear, everyday clothes R – How long have you been in the fashion game? B – Since 2002 R – How did you get into fashion? B – By default. I studied web design and I had just graduated and was jobless and in the process of figuring out what I’m gonna do next. My mother wanted to start this school so she roped me in to work with her and I started out helping to set up the school, doing admin etc. Then I developed an interest in fashion and began to learn how to make clothes. I then did every course we offer here at the school and my label came next. Now It’s my number one passion. R – What are the difficulties of being in the fashion game? B – Production in this country is really expensive. Finding good material is a headache and when you do it’s really expensive so by the time my garment is complete, my pants will cost the same as a pair of Diesel Jeans. People will very rarely spend that much on a local brand they don’t really know. The other difficulty is finding good seamstresses. I have lost lots of money throwing away garments that are badly made so yeah, that gets a little frustrating R – Are you in anyway influenced by international trends? B – Yeah, I look at what is going on in the world and in the streets. The streets are the best catwalk; there is no better catwalk than the streets. And it’s streets everywhere, in the hood too. R – Where do you advertise your clothes? B – I don’t. People come across my stuff at stores otherwise its through word of mouth R – Which stores do you supply to?...
Africa in Desperate Stress…
Thanks to Karabo for these touching words on HIV/Aids. Need we say more? I travel through these dark walls filled with red lining, My travel is accompanied by the gusts of blood, which flow within these walls. The depletion of my inner being is in the weakening of the body, which houses these walls, Exposed to the reflections of pain given of by the eyes of men, women and chil…dren who profess themselves as African on a daily basis through a simple quest for life. I experience the effects of globalisation on the lives of many through the continuous travels to and fro hospitals. I’ve been passed through needles of pain through the bleeding souls of many, I’ve seen desire, dreams and passion turn into stale fragments of broken mirrors reflecting politics and legislature governing the existence of the house which protects these walls I’ve made my home. Through the many travels I seem to spread through colour, ethnic groups and cultural barriers, I’ve broken homes, destroyed lives and have become the root of a war against humanity and the right to life. I too have life and only seek to live; yet I cannot find shelter in the acidic tears of generations portraying a civilization of man that seeks to find itself through the death of entire societies. I am HIV/AIDS& I am the present, the future& Copyright 2004 Aluta...
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