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Ever felt frustrated that you can’t manipulate what happens to thicken a drama plot? Butlers and Botox provides a unique solution to this problem by allowing audiences to have their say during the play. cueTV went along to two performances to watch the different audiences’ dictate the storyline. Hi res... [view entry]
Been there, done that, seen the show. While you may still reminisce about mad house shares, job hunting and that ever-annoying voice repeating ‘mind the gap’, for many of you who have done London, South Africa seems to be where you end up. The grass is not always be greener... [view entry]
In the Blue Beaker has received great reviews at this year’s festival, and Anton Krueger is certainly one multitalented performer/director who is making a name for himself. He directs AND acts in this piece, and also found some time to chat to cueTV, along with his two fellow actors, about... [view entry]
Outside & Beside Herself explores the suicide of Virginia Woolf in the space of the old Provost prison The audience is led around the stage by the performers and handed white stones. They represent the stones Woolf placed in her pocket just before drowning herself in the river Ouse. Lamps... [view entry]
Jesse Clegg, the son of music legend Johnny, takes the stage at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival this year. cueTV managed to get a backstage chat about his new album/career and his parents influence on both his music and his life. Hi res version | lo res version | mobile... [view entry]
Every year every day I am walking is a moving play about refugees in Africa who are forced from their homes in a traumatic and brutal way and have to journey to another country to try and make a living. The play is about the painful situation of refugees that... [view entry]
Many of us take strolling around the village green, dashing off to see last minute shows and absorbing the general energy of the National Arts Festival for granted. However for those with disabilities it is not a pleasant experience. cueTV follow wheelchair-bound Farai Mabhande around Festival for the day to... [view entry]
Ever had a fear of not your hair stylist having creative attack on your bonce? Extreme hairdo team Osadia invite volunteers to take a seat in the stylist chairs and become transformed for free into walking works of surreal art. After their abduction, festinos Zavick and Ayesha definitely put their... [view entry]
Keen to show our cueTV producer a good time? Spanish performance artists Osadia did. They gave her a fantasy make-over. Now all she needs is a fat party to show it off. cueTV’s Alette Schoon was randomly picked for a style treat by festival regulars and hair artists, Osadia, and... [view entry]
South African singer/songwriter and finger style acoustic guitarist Nibs Van Der Spuy delighted audiences with his beautfiul guitar sound at this year’s National Arts Festival. He has been playing guitar since he was 14 years old and now boasts seven different instruments, many of which he incorporates into his show... [view entry]