Cape theatre picks: October 14 2011

Musicals look at very serious political issues and provide entertaining escapism this week.

■ In 2001 a bus driver was shot and killed in Khayelitsha by an unknown gunman. Over the years, buses have regularly been caught in the crossfire of protest and strike action; a number have been stoned or burned.

Caboose, a drama with music and dance, brings these circumstances to life in a tense story of bus commuters trapped on their way home by both a hostile crowd of protesters bent on arson and what appears to be a desperate hijacker.

Golden Arrow Studio, Baxter Theatre, Main Road, Rosebank. Until October 22. Book at Computicket. Tel: 021 685 7880. Website: www.baxter.co.za.

■ It has been many years since we last saw the Offbeat Broadway team of Anton Luitingh, Lindy Abromowitz and Paul Du Toit with their hilarious revue spoof of Broadway musicals. They have spent the past six years preoccupied with the horrors of parenthood, selling their souls to soap operas and rehashing musicals from the Pacific rim to Qatar. You can now look forward to being stunned by their cynicism and perplexed by their disillusionment. Musical theatre gets an overhaul with their wicked harmonies and irreverent sense of humour.

Theatre on the Bay, 1A Link Street, Camps Bay. Until October 29. Tel: 021 438 3301. Website: www.theatreonthebay.co.za.