Category Archives: Theatre Review

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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A Stage Where Nothing Goes Right!

Posted on April 9, 2018 by colonialist

We have been through a stage where a number of things have not gone well. However, there has been one stage where things going badly have gone superbly! As one of our activities during the flying visit of Elder Daughter … Continue reading →

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An Eggs or Sting Day and a Ballet Good Sinbad

Posted on December 20, 2017 by colonialist

Actually, Saturday and Sunday involved buying a carton of eggs and two bottles of honey. Today (yesterday by the time this is posted) merely had the feeling it sounds like. After housekeeping and such, we decided to take advantage of … 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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Fur-fectly Fabulous Feline in Full Footwear

Posted on December 14, 2015 by colonialist

  Technical hitches with computer and camera which can only be described in words best not printed have prevented me from being, as I usually am, the first to review a new KickstArt production – and have demoted mine to … Continue reading →

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Strip tease fully covered …

Posted on August 12, 2015 by colonialist

As I normally do (with permission) for KickstArt stage productions, I present the view of the stage before the curtain goes up – except that in this case there wasn’t one and it didn’t. The ‘Snoopy’ sign did the rising … Continue reading →

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