Reflections IV – Cages
Johannesburg is a city defined by security. It affects the landscape, the architecture, the way of life… and more importantly, the way...
Walking in rhythm
Same play as in the previous clip - The Three Sons, but by necessity rather than choice, as only one person from the other scene I...
Stop! ... in the name of love
As mentioned before, every Thursday morning the entire primary and secondary school treks across the road to St Anne's, the nearby...
Climb every mountain
Oops - sorry for the radio silence recently. Suddenly mid-term break was upon us, so we decided to get away from school, Johannesburg and...
As time goes by
A month into our stay, I realised that today would be the first time I ventured out on my own since we arrived ... to attend a breakfast...
Every time it rains, it rains...
...pennies from heaven. More like five rand pieces actually. The weather in Johannesburg, especially at this time of year, is pretty...
Reflections III - stages
(as in, things people perform on.) We have been to the theatre three times in eight days – an astonishing increase on our normal pattern....
The world is your Ostrich
Rehearsal and the usual anxiety - who would turn up? But for the first time, all the people I'd asked to come did come. (Eventually, it's...
Valentine dinner
Belated valentines dinner for the boarders. Despite everyone being allocated a partner, the photos on the lawn started with boys and...
Hey! Taxi!
Online taxi company Uber is controversial the world over, largely because of its impact on existing local taxis. Each time we climb into...
5am boot camp
My life has turned upside down... Always a night owl, working until 1 or 2am, I am transformed. My alarm goes off at 4.55am and I am out...
The Soup dance
After last week, Chris was determined that in today's rehearsal everybody would be kept busy. But his careful plans were thrown asunder...
Reflections II - black and white
Our regular trip to the shopping mall (by Uber taxi – we did try the bus once, but it never came – takes us past Jeppe (pron. Jeppy)...
Weeping willow?
The advantage of having six different plays with largely separate casts is that they can be rehearsed simultaneously; the disadvantage,...
Woza Albert!
A theatre trip to the stunning Soweto theatre this afternoon: 37 learners, Val, Viloshni and me. The learners were in full school...
