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AIDA  At Ster-Kinekor Theatres, Rosebank Nouveau to watch the premier of Verdi's Aida on the big screen. A production by Cape Town Opera performed at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town. I can claim having gone to Cape Town, such was the experience. The visuals in HD and the sound crisp, it was like being in the Artscape auditorium. I kid you not 15 minutes before the show, one of my poems titled "Cape Town" got a like. Cape Town is calling my name again, I don't believe in coincidences, it's synchronicities, I read Jung. A grand production this is. It is spectacular! Egyptian mythology, Isis, vibrant costumes, colorful and bursting with imagination. 4 acts, huge stage. The Opera is sung in Italian, English subtitles for continuity and following with the story. The set evokes the feeling of Egypt with a big triangle hovering in the air against a backdrop of a gold wall that has imagery of the eye of horus. A chorus of 56 singers and dancers w...

Dr. Strangelove At Ster-Kinekor Theatres in Rosebank Nouveau to watch "Dr. Strangelove", live theatre straight from the UK, on the big screen. I've got my popcorn and Creme Soda, a Production by National Theatre. A fantastic show, laughing out loud all the way through. Amazing performers, great script. Steve Coogan plays four characters, I've never seen anything like that before, like an illusion, like you watching TV, but it's not, it's live theatre, on the big screen. He is amazing in all four roles, so sharp witted, edgy, dark and humorous. My favorite character was Dr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-bound, ex-Nazi scientist with an uncontrollable arm. His arm was so inappropriate and he explained himself far too many times. Humor is so mischievous.  A Stanley Kubrick classic, co-adapted by Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley. It is a dark satire about the Cold War and the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Sovi...