Malcolm Purkey News Today

It is said to have started out by selling decoders from a caravan more than three decades ago, but this week broadcasting behemoth MultiChoice opted for a giant dome mounted on a patch of green not far from its humble beginnings to stake out a claim for Africa’s streaming service crown.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the death of legendary South African theatre-maker Barney 
 Simon, the Baxter Theatre Centre is restaging his riveting docudrama Born in the 
 RSA at the National Arts Festival. Still relevant today, it reminds us of our painful past. SA Facts

It is always refreshing when plays that tell such emotionally weighty stories are accompanied by song and dance. That offers the viewer some relief from the inevitable roller coaster of emotions conjured by works of this nature.

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With the untimely death of South African actor Patrick Shai, it is time to consider his impact on stage, in films, on television and in society.

An elderly woman sits alone on a bench, with a handbag and a box of medicines at hand to treat the ailments of old age. As the light illuminates her silhouette, her blue jacket contrasting against the theatre curtain – a costume designed by Margo Snoyman – her first few sentences stop us dead, just like a bullet stopped the young girl she’s describing. This is the beginning of the story of Rose, a play by Martin Sherman, now revived by the Market Theatre in Joburg. First performed at the...