The Critter

On a Saturday night, this is the place you want to be: thecritter.co.za/?p=5104 #jazz #festival @artsfestival

The depravity of our ruling political elite is laid bare with hip-hop Shakespearean hilarity and deep satire in SBYA production of Khongolose Khommanding Khommisars. Weep with rage and laugh with despair. thecritter.co.za/?p=5098 #theatre #stage #performance #SBYA @artsfestival

Castaways hits the sweet spot between spectacle and narrative @artsfest Don't delay, one show left. thecritter.co.za/?p=5092 #performance #circus #drama #festival #NAF23

Khongolose Khommanding Khomissars finally gets the treatment it deserves by the current Standard Bank Young Artists for theatre. This is an @artsfestival highlight. Don't miss it. thecritter.co.za/?p=5082 #theatre #performance #SBYA

'I have not laughed so hard in a long time, not so much triggered as fired from the canon.' Go see The Agents @artsfestival, last show tonight, 6.30. thecritter.co.za/?p=5057 #theatre #performance #art #drama #estageagents #corporatefuckery

Virtual does no justice to the real. dSimon reviewed: thecritter.co.za/?p=5036 @artsfestival #NAF #theatre #crittered

If you don't get lost, you won't discover anything new, like hope. thecritter.co.za/?p=5031 #NAF @artsfestival #art

Our national treasure, Pieter-Dirk Uys, has emerged from Covid and a painful walk to freedom with a new show Theatre On The Bay , SELL-BY DATE. The Critter reviews: thecritter.co.za/?p=5017 #theatre #satire #drama

"(Graham) Hopkins and (Lihle) Ngubo are a great team, maintaining the relentless pace the play demands, and deftly navigate its thematic twists and turns." - Dave Mann reviews The Lesson, playing @MarketTheatre until 30 October. thecritter.co.za/?p=4923 #stage #theatre #drama

Mark Gevisser's unauthorised biography reads as a cynical attempt to try profit off the world's richest man, whose greed is destroying the planet under cover of 'saving humanity'. Here's a review: thecritter.co.za/?p=4914 #elonmusk #books #biography #capitalism #unsustainability

"I am watching the dead come alive! It is surprising, shattering actually." - Mike Loewe on Bryan Schimmel: A Handful of Keys thecritter.co.za/?p=4742 #drama #musical #stage #theatre #festival #NAF2022 @artsfestival @fest

"Trauma is cyclical, posits Phinda Ubuyele, and memory is seldom static, never limited to the past. Left unresolved, it can rise like a spectre to trouble the present." thecritter.co.za/?p=4734 #drama #stage #performance #acting #play #festival @artsfestival @fest

Suffering from exposition and blunt visuals, Bloke and His American Bantu is an important story nonetheless. thecritter.co.za/?p=4726 @fest @artsfestival #stage #theatre #drama #strugglehistory

Whistleblowers is a powerful, high energy play that is not what it seems. Two more shows @artsfestival Link to review: thecritter.co.za/?p=4720 #naf #theatre #drama #AFDA #festival #stage @cue.online

Arriving in Makhanda and need some help choosing shows. Here's some for the first few days you shouldn't miss: thecritter.co.za/?p=4706 #nationalartsfestival #makhanda #theatre #art #music #jol

Grahamstown forged band the Fishwives have a new EP. It's raunchy, irreverent, twisted and subterranean. Launching it @artsfestival on 1 July. Come cut a rug. thecritter.co.za/?p=4701 #music #frockrock #rocknroll #nationalartsfestival #makhanda

A cure for xenophobia: thecritter.co.za/?p=4693 #reading #books #literature #imagination #empathy #phantsi #xenophobia #phantsi!

The fantastic clowning duo of @SylvaineStrike and Andrew Buckland provide an exquisite play in Firefly. On @BaxterTheatre Here's our review: thecritter.co.za/?p=4685 #theatre #stage #performance #art #play

Local comedian @RobVanVuuren gets covered in gore. thecritter.co.za/?p=4656 #horror #horrorfest #drillkiller

@remythequill @adam_smyer @TatteredCover Just listened to this. Was highly enjoyable, and "I gotta get out the door and lose my other eye" really cracked me up. @adam_smyer you doing any stand up?