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The Beatles performing at The Odd Spot, Liverpool on 29th March 1962. 

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"Infinity on the tip of your elbow", a review of Nick Payne's play 'Constellations', directed by Jay Pather and featuring Nick Elderkin and Mwenya Kabwe, at Theatre on the Square in Sandton until 11 July 2026.

Infinity on the tip of your elbow

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"You're the strychnine in my coffee", a review of Agatha Christie's 'Black Coffee' directed by Alan Swerdlow, at the Pieter Toerien Theatre, Montecasino, until 8 June 2025.

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The Beatles at The Odd Spot Club in Liverpool, England | 29 March 1962 © Alan Swerdlow (I)

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Learned friends; true rotters

"Learned friends; true rotters", a review of 'Witness for the Prosecution', directed by Alan Swerdlow, until 30 June in Johannesburg, and 4 July - 10 August in Cape Town.

VERDICT under consideration, with (from left) Sir Wilfred Robarts QC (Graham Hopkins), Mr John Mayhew (Craig Jackson), defence solicitor Mr Myers QC (Mike Huff) and Inspector Hearne (Micah Stojakovic) with Mr Justice Wainwright (Peter Terry) residing. Photograph by Keaton Ditchfield. THE COURT DRAMA in the wake of a murder of passion is arguably the most enthralling context for a thrilling story…

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Just a boy and his Bengal tiger

"Just a boy and his tiger", a review of 'The Life of Pi' for the National Theatre Live, until 31 August.

“YOU scare me, but when I am with you, I feel better,” says Pi to Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger. Photograph courtesy National Theatre Live. VERY OCCASIONALLY, THE world offers you an experience which is so utterly perfect in how it touches you, intellectually and spiritually, emotionally and with quirkiness, that it will change how you look at the world. This is what you can expect in the…

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Garbed to a T

"Garbed to a T", a review of The Dress Code, at Theatre on the Square in Sandton until 28 May.

LADIES in red, with their pianist: (from left) Lorri Strauss, Ntambo Rapatla and Sharon Spiegel-Wager, with Clifford Cooper on piano, in Alan Swerdlow’s The Dress Code, at Theatre on the Square in Sandton, until 28 May. Photograph by Phillip Kuhn WHAT ARE YOU wearing right now? Does it pinch and bunch, ride and give you a pain where it shouldn’t? Does it make you feel like a million dollars,…

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There and Back Again, in a Grain of Sand

"There and Back Again, in a Grain of Sand", a review of 'The Hobbit' at the National Children's Theatre until 21 May.

WHAT has he got in his pocketses? Bilbo Baggins (Gamelihle Bovana) and Kira Timm (Gollum) in Alan Swerdlow’s production of The Hobbit at the National Children’s Theatre. Photograph by Rebecca Hearfield. DO YOU REMEMBER building forts with the cushions from your parents’ lounge suites and wearing your bedspread as a cloak and a colander as a helmet as you shouted loud and feral words and regally…

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