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Swan Song, which was previously staged as a live performance, has been reformulated for film. (Photo: Shaun Oelf)
BLACK SWAN

Review: ‘Swan Song’, a brutally vulnerable performance

Buhle Ngaba’s ‘Swan Song’, showing online at the virtual National Arts Festival, explores the rawness of heartbreak, and of life

  • Sarah Roberson
4 min read
Best friends Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Eric (Ncuti Gutwa) lost in the woods is a fitting visual metaphor for the confusion of teenage sexual discovery in Sex Education.
MORALITY
Video

Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more

The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation

  • Zinaid Meeran
5 min read