Lauren Shantall

The success of the National Arts Festival is yet another demonstration of how we as South Africans can reach into the diversity of a past division and conflict, and transform it…

Brett Bailey’s <i>The Prophet</i> is strange, crowd-pulling stuff. But Lauren Shantall finds it hard to be amazed yet again.

‘So what are you cooking tonight?” Now that’s a question to whet your appetite, writes Lauren Shantall.

Meaning remains just beyond reach in the works of visiting artist Jenö Gindl, writes Lauren Shantall.

‘Dead men can’t rape’ is the premise of <i>A Gun for Jennifer</i>. Lauren Shantall wonders if it’s really that simple