It's Tough At The Top
✮✮ Cole Porter's High Society The Old Vic | London directed by Maria Friedman It’s tough at the top: the press are snooping through your knicker drawer, your father’s cavorting with a dancer half his age, your ex-husband’s trying to give you a yacht you don’t want and you simply can’t stomach all that champagne these days. Such are the problems of Tracy Lord as she navigates her way through her own wedding party attended by the great, the good, and the gorgeous of America’s H
A Not So Ordinary Everyman
✮✮✮✮ Everyman National Theatre | London a new adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy directed by Rufus Norris From start to finish (or cradle to grave, to crowbar in a theme) this is an incendiary opening salvo from the National Theatre’s new artistic director Rufus Norris. Fast-paced, engaging, funny and precise, it delivers in every anachronistically delicious way you expect a Medieval morality play to – yet by addressing our modern addiction to self-gratification it achieves much m
Comfort and Hope
✮✮✮✮ 1/2 Comfort Ye Artscape Theatre | Cape Town Robert Lehmeier | Catherine Milliken | Erik Dippenaar Comfort Ye depicts a day in the life of one of South Africa’s countless “previously disadvantaged communities”, more commonly known as townships or informal settlements. The narrative draws together stories written by young members of the Bloekombos Secondary School choir. Their narratives tell of love, loss, pursuit, murder, abuse, families torn apart. These are, sadly, not
