Category Archives: Theatre

Celtic Rock; noisy rather than tasty.

Posted on July 21, 2019 by colonialist

The grandchildren were in the same area as this during the morning, and Jeneva managed to twist her ankle while Rhiannon got nipped by a spider on some climbing equipment. We are watching that closely. An afternoon visit to the … Continue reading →

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Concerted Valentine Party

Posted on February 15, 2019 by colonialist

On 9th February I saw this competition, featuring two tickets to KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra concert on Valentine’s Night: https://sosuterbill.com/2019/02/09/win-a-special-valentines-treat/   As may be seen, the second half featured Elgar, whose music we are both fond of, and I thought, … Continue reading →

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Better than fourth-coming (I hope) attractions butting into book announcements.

Posted on July 21, 2018 by colonialist

The book editing/publishing scene is busy-to-hectic, and there is much news to impart. It needs some time in which to do it, but attendant flapping around plus the intrusion, tomorrow, of an all-day swimming gala means justice cannot be done … Continue reading →

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Bally Fine Go at the BFG

Posted on June 22, 2018 by colonialist

A Big Friendly Giant of a show! It is a miracle that so soon after the magnificent ‘Camelot’, KickstArt Productions are able to come up with anything half as elaborate and ambitious as Roald Dahl’s ‘the BFG’. Part of the … Continue reading →

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Night and Turning Tables, or Knights of Round Table

Posted on June 2, 2018 by colonialist

Anyone with fondness for live shows who could, by hook or by crook, have attended a performance of KickstArt’s ‘Camelot’ in Durban and didn’t, deserves a kick-start up their own bottoms delivered by themselves.  It is tragic that the run is … Continue reading →

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Camelot in Durban: dazzling.

Posted on May 20, 2018 by colonialist

The KickstArt production of Camelot will be running from 18th May to 3rd June, which doesn’t give much time to enjoy it. How do I know you will enjoy it? Because, as I said on their Fb page before swiping … Continue reading →

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Playing with Shakespeare:

Posted on April 23, 2018 by colonialist

Today marks the anniversary of what is agreed to have been, from baptismal records, the birthdate of William Shakespeare, and he died on the same date 402 years ago.   A wonderful way of remembering the dates was taught to pensitivity … Continue reading →

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Simply Brilliant Chicago in Durban

Posted on April 16, 2017 by colonialist

We took our overseas visitors to the Durban production of ‘Chicago’ to round off Easter Sunday, and introduced them to the co-directors of KickstArt.  After reading the Sunday Times review of it, I won’t even attempt to write one of … Continue reading →

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Sleeping Beauty — Evil Triumph Take Two

Posted on December 9, 2016 by colonialist

WP appears to have got over its sulks, so this time the pasting happened. Here is what should have appeared in the previous post: Last evening the entire family, plus a friend of R with her mother, saw KickstArt’s latest … Continue reading →

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Sleeping Beauty — Evil Triumph

Posted on December 8, 2016 by colonialist

Last evening we saw the Panto at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre. I wrote a full set of comments and a review, but the method I always use of pasting from Word simply won’t work. I even tried an incantation of some … Continue reading →

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