Encore – By Rafiek Mammon Sadly, this is the last Encore I shall be writing. Like most good things, this too has run its course. Thank you kindl...
Encore: Revelation: tomorrow is really just a day away
By Rafiek Mammon I know it is rain that we desperately need in Cape Town. However, if you’re going to wait until tomorrow for the rain, you might be m...
Encore: No, sssssis man!
I was at the Wynberg Court just now. Although, by the time you read this, it would have been last week…is it even called the Wynberg Court, or does it...
Encore: And thank you for the music
So it is almost the silly season again. So called because we get silly, right? Perhaps then it might be more appropriate to just call the whole year t...
Encore: The kind of stage the world should be
If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times – theatre is indeed magical. I sit there before a show, in anticipation, and when the lights go...
Parting, partying and music, music, music
I am at the age where it feels as though I am attending more funerals than parties. Close friends are losing their battles with cancer, or something e...
Give us this day our daily soup
There is a saying that speaks to there being no limits to what someone can do if he or she does not care who gets the credit. This message has been ha...
Long roads, high mountains and deep oceans
Two weeks ago it was “on the road again” for us – the life of migrant labourers; driving on the N7 towards Springbok. Fields of green galore but, alas...
The GHD is the new “swirlkous” and black the new off-white
“Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky; little boxes, little boxes, all the same. There’s a red one and a pink one and a blue...
New voices alive and well in SA theatre
As a theatre critic and a person who has, through the years, contributed to the creation of new work (and work opportunities) for young thespians in t...