Grahamstown: the shows

Oh, we also saw some shows while we were in Grahamstown.
We picked very well overall, and even the ones that weren’t so great had their good points.
Unfortunately, it’s pretty difficult to satisfactorily get across the meaning and feeling of most of the shows in words, so instead we (Parfles and I) present below incomprehensible, daft, haikii (one haiku, many haikii) summary / review things of the shows we saw.

SONGS FOR THE NORTH

All-star cast jazzing
Strappy sandals, strap-on Sax
Nordic giants awed

THE STRANGE CASE OF HESTER CILLIERS

Jo’burg whodunit
Victorian hijinx abound
Beware LARP table

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S RAIDERS

Shakespeare turns in grave
“You! Be my body-double!”
Puns as Punishment

A TASTE OF MILLEFEUILLE

Frenchman, dressed in black,
Spinning, twirling, and chewing,
He spat himself out

ISABELLA

Graveyard Theatre
They will steal your dance and more
Unless love prevails

VIVID AFRICA

From Cape to Cairo
Deep rhythm infects the crowd
They go over: twice!

QUACK

The advert said clowns
Didn’t see them, had eyes closed
Not sure what happened…

CAPE ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS

Too young for the stage?
Full house: mums, dads, perverts, and us
Give them a few years

GHOST STORY

The Devil wrote it
Effects outshine the Am-Dram
Abusive cycle

INNER PIECE

Enter secret cult
Chant at flashing trapeze boy
Then it gets meta

RUMP STEAK

Man plays restaurant
Slice, dice, chop, drop, mind the cow!
Oui chef, non chef, merde!

ZOO STORY

New York park benches
Is friendly crazy harmless?
This may not end well

CRACKS

Christie on acid
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Whodunit? Dunno.

ZEBRA

Black and white Russians
True visual spectacle
Maybe missed the point?

BEWITCHED

Hansel, Gretel, witch
Feminist guilt makes you rant
But wow, they can sing!

STILTED

Breaking the fourth wall
Man, on stilts, on trampoline
It summed up our fest