ANTAKALIPA

Pinocchio At Joburg Theatre for the opening of Janice Honeyman's Pinocchio. So much excitement - we got goodie bags filled with sweets and snacks! Pinocchio is one of my favorite fairytale's of all time. I love the character of Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's conscience. We all need a moral campass to help us get through life. The show doesn't disappoint, colorful costumes and vibrant sets. Energetic, South African, interactive and beaming with life. Laduma! Madame Pussy Galore (The Fat Cat) and Madame Ill Fortunato (The Fox) are so humorous. They might have stolen the show, so effective as a comedic duo. A lot of comedic moments, I loved the puns and dramatic irony, breaking the fouth wall at times. Pest control was needed for Jiminy Cricket, he was doomed! Pinocchio is the journey of a wooden puppet who magically comes to life and dreams of becoming a real boy. Katlego Nche plays Pinocchio, he is wonderful and he transforms into a real ...

Barbershop Chronicles At the Market Theatre for the opening of Inua Ellam's  Barbershop Chronicles. I postponed releasing this because the show centers a lot around a very painful memory. The UEFA Champions League semi-final against Chelsea. A tie Chelsea won by deploying negative tactics, a low block, parking the bus at the Camp Nou and countering with a last minute Fernando Torres goal. The cast of the show are having a lot of fun with that result, a lot of these barbers around the world are Chelsea fans. I am very much a Barcelona fan.  The play chronicles six different barbershops scattered across London and various African cities: including Lagos, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, and Accra. The whole story unfolds over the course of a single day, though in different times and places, giving a sweeping, episodic sense of lives, connections and conversations across the diaspora. The play covers themes of black masculinity, identity, fatherhood, absent ...

Medea At the Market Theatre for the opening of Medea. A production by The Windybrow Arts Center. For 4 performances only, don't miss it!  A Greek classic reimagined. So dramatic, Shakespearean, tragic! The performances so gripping and captivating - you can't look away, they demand your attention. The dialogues and monologues so heartfelt and expressive, delivered with so much conviction. Love, betrayal, poison, death, Medea.  I can't even lie, I was disgusted by Medea's actions. To kill your own children not out of hatred but spite, revenge because she knew it would destroy Jason emotionally! The only memory of the children that prevailed was their superhero action figures (Superman and Batman) - a signifier of their innocence. They didn't do anything to anyone, they were just playing and running around in their superhero capes. Until their despicable mother used them for her nefarious murderous ends. Deplorable, souless woman.  ...

GANGSTER III: The call of the void So intrusive, the call of the void. I am thinking crime, conditioned to think that's the only way somebody like me can get ahead. I watched too much TV to know it never works out. You can never break bad even if you are Gustavo Fring because a master manipulator like Heisenberg is in the background, pulling strings detonating bombs! Even if you avoid explosions and ignite them verbally like Saul Goodman they ultimately result in life imprisonment because you are sneaky, dishonest, a co-conspirator, a shape-shifter, silver tongue devil, a scumbag criminal lawyer! The call of the void, so intrusive, destructive. I am thinking crime but I have watched enough Scorsese to know it never works out, even if you're Henry Hill who aspired to be a gangster all his life. Cadillac's and double-breasted suits and you are never secured. Living a life of paranoia, death can come from anywhere, a volitile existence, your murderers come with a s...

Interpretation of dreams Ever since I started reading "The Interpretation of dreams" by Sigmund Freud, I have a relationship with my dreams. I am understanding myself a bit better. I should keep a dream journal. The dream as wish-fulfillment. The dream I had today was interesting. My interpretation of the dream is one of fatigue. In the dream I was walking long distances, I am with someone, female, identity not clear but we get along. We both walking but we are fatigued. The act of walking long distance is not a sacrifice, we both love it but we are still fatigued. Something has to give, we can't keep doing this, there is no reason to keep doing this, there is no incentive to keep doing this, love is not enough, we can't keep walking, we are fatigued but we are still cheerful and happy.  Intuitively I understand the dream, I've been feeling so limited. Feeling so boxed in and disillusioned with life and everything. I do feel fatigued, I can't keep ...