A new “Joseph” for a new generation The latest production by Pieter Toerien Productions and LAMTA – Luitingh Alexander Musical Theatre Academy of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre & Studio at Montecasino was an absolute treat, being a refreshing, exciting modern take on an enduring classic. Not […]
“The architecture of a city begins when you look upwards” This was quoted to me as being by Gerald Manley Hopkins – although I have never found any evidence of it being by him! Nevertheless, it’s a sentence that encapsulates a world of difference in perspective from common street level. When one walks around the […]
Champagne is not something that you are born in love with – unless you live in the region of Champagne. Babies (or Catholic babies at any rate) are given a spoonful of this delicious bone-achingly dry nectar at their baptism, and although they make a funny face and try to spit it out, it is […]
Quality rather than quantity is the name of the game at the Birdhaven Centre just off Corlett Drive. In a city where crowds spend hours in the many malls the smaller centre has a growing appeal for the shopping connoisseur.For example, the Intoto Gallery is a fun space which makes art accessible and offers mainstream exhibitions of well-known artists’ […]
Years ago I walked into Harrods in London wearing a pair of electric-blue Wellington boots. It had been snowing outside, the snow had melted and re-frozen into sleet which made the London pavements not only even harder on the feet than normal, but also highly slippery. This was no consolation to the blue-rinsed, tweedy county […]
