Here are this week’s Mail & Guardian hot ticket events in Cape Town for 2 – 9 April, 2015.
♦ Grant van Ster and Shaun Oelf of Figure of Eight Dance Collective will present their acclaimed work Architecture of Tears, which was staged at the 2014 Baxter Dance Festival. They have teamed up with the Baxter’s Lara Foot to present a new dance and theatre work dealing with Shakespeare’s characters Iago and Othello. Foot worked with both artists on Fishers of Hope, with Oelf as a cast member and Van Ster as choreographer. The double bill of Iago and Architecture of Tears will showcase their talents and expand the repertoire they have built up in such a short space of time.
WHEN April 9 to 18 at 7pm. WHERE Baxter Theatre, Rodebosch, Cape Town 7700. INFO R100 a ticket. Visit Baxter See associated blog
♦ Held in association with Playboy magazine South Africa, Shimmy Beach Club will host a bunny party featuring an all-female DJ line-up. Partygoers are encouraged to dress up because prizes will be given for “Best Hugh Hefner” and “Best Dressed Bunny Girl”.
WHEN Saturday April 4 from 9pm until late. WHERE Shimmy Beach Club, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town 8001. INFO To pre-book and receive VIP entrance, email info@shimmybeachclub.co.za. Entry is R100 a person.
♦ SAS Somerset & Other War Stories is an installation by Stephen Hobbs in collaboration with David Krut Projects, representing the pre-production state of a series of performances on the world’s last boom defence vessel, an Iziko Maritime Centre artefact. The installation will demonstrate a unique and dynamic use of dazzle patterning and lighting on to a mock assemblage of the SAS Somerset; a spectacle conceived to enliven and transform the perception of the vessel’s significance in location and history. The installation provides a counterpoint to Hobbs’s solo exhibition, Permanent Culture, an elaborate multimedia revelry in the optical and psychological effects of camouflage. It will be on view alongside the installation for the duration of this pop-up exhibition.
WHEN From April 2, 5pm to 9pm. WHERE Twenty Fifty, 1st Floor, 8 Spin Street Cape Town 8001.
♦ British playwright David Hare’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers launches the new season from National Theatre Live. Based on the book by Pulitzer prize-winner Katherine Boo and directed by Rufus Norris, the production was filmed for cinema broadcast at the National’s Olivier Theatre in London.
WHEN & WHERE Cinema Nouveau, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town 8001 from April 4.
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PHOTO CREDIT: Grant Van Ster & Shaun Oelf by Oscar O’Ryan
