Karen Rutter

1 week ago | weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter

THE STORY OF VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS – WORLD CAFÉ. At Café Roux. CARSTEN RASCH reviewsThe first time I heard The Four Seasons was in 1974. It was a Saturday afternoon. My stepfather was at the tennis club (presumably) playing tennis, my younger brother in his bedroom reading a Trompie book, and I was three songs into Uriah Heep’s Sweet Freedom, which I’d bought that morning. My mother walked in and, without a word, removed the record from the turntable and replaced it with Vivaldi. I was not impressed.

1 week ago | weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter

JULIUS CAESAR. Director: Fred Abrahamse. Cast: Fiona Ramsay, Marcel Meyer, Matthew Baldwin, Tailyn Ramsamy, Nkosinathi Mazwai and Thinus Viljoen. Artscape Arena. BEVERLEY BROMMERT reviewsFluidity pervades this remarkable staging of Shakespeare’s political thriller Julius Caesar, as identities and periods continuously mutate to confirm how little changes with the passage of time.

1 week ago | weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter

AIDA. Director: Magdalene Minnaar. Conductor: Kamal Khan. Choreographer: Gregory Vuyani Maqoma. Cast: Nobulumko Mngxekeza, Nonhlanhla Yende, Lukhanyo Moyake, Conroy Scott, Lonwabo Mose, members of Cape Town Opera and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. Photographs: Oscar O’Ryan. Artscape Opera House.

1 week ago | weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter

BITTER WINTER. Written by Paul Slabolepszy. Directed by Ledesi Job. With Andre Odendaal, Oarabile Ditsele and Chantal Stanfield. Baxter Studio. KAREN RUTTER reviewsNow is the winter of Jean-Louis Lourens’ discontent, but he’s not going down without a gunfight. Paul Slabolepszy’s latest, and possibly most personal, play is an examination of the shelf life of an actor, particularly in an age of insta-celebrities and easy success.

2 weeks ago | weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter

The Common Humanity Arts Trust in association with the Baxter will present Moffie for a limited season from 2 to 27 September 2025 at the Baxter Flipside. Based on the novel by André Carl van der Merwe, the stage adaptation has been brought to life by a stellar South African team, in a powerful, poignant sharing of this story about love, survival, and identity under apartheid.