Unless you live in a large uptown cave (you know, the kind that defaces a hillside to park a Mercedes), then you’ve heard of Shebada—the slim-built, hair-dyed dynamo of roots theatre. No? Here’s your primer.
Roots theatre, the long-suffering bastard child of West African storytelling and English farce, has finally come of age. And its adulthood is being ushered by one company.
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Backstage. Not so fun from out front.For Karl Hart’s fourth play, “Backstage”, to succeed, the show-within-the-show should be more of a failure. |
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Appropriate Behaviour. Not enough work, not enough play.If you work in an office, you will recognize the narcoleptic environment of “Appropriate Behaviour”, where management is overstaffed, the ledgers matter less than the lunch menu, and no one does any work. |
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Tick Tock. Time marches on.As a new generation of artists take over, Owen Ellis tries to stay relevant with his performance piece ‘Tick Tock’. Are his days numbered? |
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Slim Actress. A vanity check.Sabrena McDonald is one of the most talented thespians under 30, and one of the few capable of carrying a one-woman show. But she does not carry ‘Slim Actress’. Why? |