by Keith Bain | Jun 30, 2025 | FEC
Silence and inaction are the torments at the heart of ‘Bridling’, a short story that’s now a riveting play debuting at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda this week. The terror of it struck me instantly. Only for a moment, but as the stage lights...
by Keith Bain | Jun 25, 2025 | FEC
The theatre director says “The Fugue of Tjebolang”, a dreamy tale about gender fluid people journeying into the world, is also full of sex and possesses the potential to heal. “I’m very much done excavating my pain for audiences,” says actor and...
by Keith Bain | May 31, 2025 | FEC
Family secrets, handed-down traumas, a search for truth, and storytelling as a ritual of healing: the play examines life’s darkest crevices, and in the process manages to engage, entertain and move. One problem with theatre-in-the-round: if the on-stage action doesn’t...
by Keith Bain | May 31, 2025 | FEC
The rise and rise of actor and theatre-maker Wessel Pretorius Actor, playwright, screenwriter and theatre director Wessel Pretorius has been strangely anxious about his trip to Europe to perform the role of Mephisto in Faustus in Africa!, an expensive revival and...
