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Can Themba’s Y-Yes Darling
I Can Themba’s ‘Y-Yes Darling’ is a small poem consisting of four stanzas of which in total there are about fifteen lines. The title of the poem automatically suggests that the poem deals with love or… more →
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Naked People Have Little or No Influence on Society
wrote 3 months ago: In Apartheid-era Sophiatown, Philemon (William Nadylam) returns home early one afternoon to find his … more →
Revenge Comes in a Tight Embrace in a South African Tale of Infidelity
wrote 3 months ago: Sometimes a weighty tale is never more affecting than when it’s told lightly. “The Suit,” the wonder … more →
Three Plays: Opus No. 7, Family Happiness, and The Suit
wrote 3 months ago: An image from Dmitry Krymov’s “Shostakovich.” The actress is Anna Sinyakina. I’ve … more →
African Delights: Delightfully African
wrote 6 months ago: Book: African Delights Author: Siphiwo Mahala Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: Jacana Media (J … more →
Review: The Suit
wrote 11 months ago: Warm lighting stirs up images of a hot country, in fierce contrast to the blustering drizzle outside … more →
The Suit (Young Vic)
wrote 11 months ago: Even in war ordinary life has to go on… Before I went to see The Suit last Thursday I had a qu … more →
Can Themba and The Suit
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wrote 11 months ago: 1955 SophiatownPhoto courtesy of Jurgen Schadebergwww.jurgenschadeberg.com “Realism can be star-scat … more →
My Review: The Suit, Young Vic, 28 May
wrote 11 months ago: My final World Stages production*, The Suit is based on a short story set in a 1950s township in Sou … more →
The Suit: Peter Brook brings Haute Couture to the Young Vic
wrote 11 months ago: Saturday 26th May 2012, evening In a recent interview for the Guardian, Peter Brook talks about his … more →
The Full Stage
wrote 11 months ago: I need to be studying… I REALLY need to studying… but this needs to be talked about or I … more →
Win a trip to Paris to see The Suit
wrote 1 year ago: The Young Vic, Time Out and World Stages London are hosting a competition to win a trip to Paris to … more →
Mob Passion- Can Themba
wrote 1 year ago: “In the soul of almost every being raved a seething madness, wild and passionate, with the causes ly … more →
VOTD : Kabir Chowdhary's Good Morning
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wrote 1 year ago: Sometime back we had a put a post on Kabir Chowdhary’s indie film Good Morning. The entire fil … more →
Can Themba’s Y-Yes Darling
wrote 1 year ago: I Can Themba’s ‘Y-Yes Darling’ is a small poem consisting of four stanzas of which in total there ar … more →
Narrative Responses to forms of discrimination in South African literature
wrote 1 year ago: Abstract Comparative Literature can be used as a tool of analytical investigation by comparing texts … more →
The Drum Renaissance
wrote 1 year ago: This modest essay is a response from my first encounter with the history of one of the most signific … more →
The Drum
wrote 1 year ago: Emerging as the voice of dissent from the midst of the chaos of South African apartheid, The Drum Ma … more →
The Drum Renaissance
wrote 2 years ago: This modest essay is a response from my first encounter with the history of one of the most signific … more →
Narrative Responses to forms of discrimination in South African literature
wrote 4 years ago: Abstract Comparative Literature can be used as a tool of analytical investigation by comparing texts … more →
