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“We are inspired by human behaviour. It’s about you guys,” say the Dutch performers, pointing at their small but enthusiastic audience. The two women were engaging in a short Q&A session with audience members after their sell-out show, Tea. The intimate...

All the seats in the Rehearsal Room are covered in sheets of dark grey plastic, taped together with silver duct tape. It rustles when you sit down or shift in your seat. Clothing is scattered onstage – shoes, shirts, jeans. A single lightbulb hangs from...

Miss Magarida. As you sit in her classroom being verbally abused, an absurd question might start running through your mind: “Why couldn’t Miss Magarida have been my school teacher?” Patricia Boyer performs in Miss Margarida’s Way at The Hangar, Grahamstown...

There’s probably going to be a lot of empty plinths in South Africa’s major centres soon – well, if this country’s self-styled landscape decolonisers get their way. The problem is: all those statues of Van Riebeeck will probably end up being replaced...

I remember seeing hundreds of men and women in red berets, presumably members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), at the 2013 Cape Town International Jazz Festival. They circulated between stages like fuzzy flying saucers. This year, in Grahamstown...