Here’s is the Mail & Guardian’s round-up of not-to-missed, hot ticket events in Cape Town.
♦ Acclaimed choreographer and producer Glenda Jones, who brought audiences Raw Silk in 2013, is back with a dance production titled Cinnamon. Jones is known for founding the dance company Afrika Ablaze. The dance production is fused with drama and music.
WHEN April 28 to May 2 at 8pm. WHERE The Baxter Theatre, Main Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700 . INFO Tickets range from R70 to R100. Visit Baxter
♦ Described as “a night of classic NYC cabaret”, the Robin Botha: Live at Parlour Songs show promises to take audiences on a musical journey to New York City. Botha, who won the 2012 Fleur du Cap award for the best actress in a musical, is an esteemed soprano who has starred in the theatre musical, Phantom of the Opera. She will be joined on stage by special guest musicians, as well as a New York musical director, Drew Rienstra, on the piano.
WHEN May 7 at 7pm. WHERE Play Club, Miao, 20 Jarvis Street, Cape Town 8001. INFO General admission is R80 and 25-year-olds and under R40 via Quicket
♦ Emily Child stars in the 2015 Fleur du Cap award-winning play, The Pervert Laura, which follows “30-year-old Laura through a week in her life”. Laura, “in conversations with her therapist, reveals herself to be a woman on the road to absolute self-annihilation”. The play is described as an “uncomfortable journey into the dark heart of a woman’s past”. Playwright Louis Viljoen received the Fleur du Cap theatre best new director award for his work on this production that premiered in December last year.
WHEN May 6 to 23 at 8pm from Tuesday to Thursday. WHERE The Fugard Studio Theatre, Corner Caledon & Lower Buitenkant Street, District Six, Cape Town 8001 INFO Tickets cost R130 via Fugard. The Pervert Laura contains explicit language and nudity.
♦ The artistic director and choreographer of the Royal Moscow Ballet Theatre’s The Crown of the Russian Ballet, Anatoly Emelianov, has put together “a special programme for South Africa devoted to Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with 2015 marking the 175th anniversary his birth.
WHEN May 6 at 7.30pm. WHERE The Baxter Theatre, Main Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700. INFO Tickets range from R150 to R280 via Computicket. Visit Baxter
via Mail & Guardian
PHOTO CREDIT: Jesse Kramer – The Pervert Laura
