Until you’ve seen young minds create and execute ideas with limited experience and meagre budgets, your appreciation of art will never be adequate.
David Kibuuka, Johannesburg-based comedian, is a nice-guy funny man. "I don’t rip people off in real life – why would I do it in a show?"
There may be no WordFest this year, but the love of language is alive and thriving at this year’s National Arts Festival, writes Hailey Gaunt.
For the third year running volunteer students are collaborating with artists and performers with the aim of opening the festival up to everyone.
They may make it look easy, but trying to earn a living from the theatre is as emotionally draining for performers as it is physically taxing.
The Free Thinkers lecture at the National Arts Festival’s Think!Fest was not the only place where dialogue and freedom of expression was explored.
Iain Ewok Robinson’s one man show, <i>Seriously?</i>, breaks the mould and gives an honest glimpse behind the pretense of hip-hop.
<i>Death of a Colonialist</i> is an honest exposition on the importance of knowing history while not being defined by it.
Guy Buttery brought his unique approach to guitar folk to Grahamstown.
Alan Bennet’s The History Boys lays bare the dominant social insecurities around institutions of higher learning.