Cape Town Boardwalk - February 24, 2015

Dirty Words runs until Saturday at the Alexander Theatre.

Dirty Words runs until Saturday at the Alexander Theatre.

Published Feb 24, 2015

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• Dirty Words ends Saturday at the Alexander Theatre. The play pulls back the covers on erotica, chat sex, dirty talk and naughty sexy grammar. R80. 9pm.Info: 021 300 1652.

• Cape Town Experience takes place on Friday at St Georges Cathedral, Wale Street. The launch of the first high-definition CD recording of the Cathedral’s Hill Organ played by Grant Bräsler. 7.30 pm. Free admission. Info: 021 423 8990.

• In Conversation with mental health specialists Mark Solms and Sean Baumann. A performance of Blue/Orange takes place tomorrow at the Baxter Theatre. A post-show discussion, centred on the questions and challenges posed by Joe Penhall’s award-winning play, to the medical professionals treating mental illness. 7pm. R130 at Computicket.

• The Playroom runs from March 3 to 7 at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Observatory. Three mentally disturbed people are placed in an institution, and in their playroom they go through experiences that gradually reveal the truth about themselves and their psychological dislocation.7pm. R50. Info: 021 447 3683.

• Refuse the Hour runs from Thursday to Saturday at the Cape Town City Hall. Design Indaba presents William Kentridge, Philip Miller, Dada Masilo, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison in 2015. 8.30pm. R400. Info via Computicket.

• An Audience with Pieter-Dirk Eish! runs until March 14 at the Theatre on the Bay. Pieter-Dirk Uys presents an unexpected national assembly of his satirical cluster of characters from the 1980s onwards. 8pm. R95 to R165. Info: 021 438 3301.

• I Turned Away and She Was Gone runs until March 14 at the Magnet Theatre. The play reviews the relationships between the three incarnations of women: a mother, a daughter and grandmother, and the passage of their past, present and future. 8pm. R120 at Computicket.

• Vocal Mania ends Saturday at the Garden Court Theatre, Woodstock. A curated showcase of songs spanning more than five decades, with an a cappella and acoustic approach, this production combines rhythmic and vocal harmonising and uses non-musical instruments and objects. 8pm. R100. Info: 083 597 1678.

• Another Day runs until March 7 at The Kalk Bay Theatre. The multiple award-winning FollowSpot Productions present a new musical production. 8:30pm. R120. Bookings: 079 361 8275.

• Jou Ma se Comedy Club runs from Wednesday to Sunday at The Pumphouse, V&A Waterfront. Line-up this week includes Dugald Pieterse, Stuart Cairns and Bill Russell. 8.30pm. R95 to R120. See www.joumase comedy.com or call 021 418 8880.

• Kaapse Stories from the Mother City runs until March 28 at Richard’s Supper Stage and Bistro, 229 Main Road, Sea Point. Directed by Basil Appollis and produced by Richard Loring, the musical dinner introduces the Kleintjies family while giving us an insight into a vigorous cosmopolitan community that thrived at the foot of Table Mountain in District Six. 7:30pm. R420 at Computicket.

• Comedy on Long every Thursday at Iconic Lounge, Long Street, CBD. R50. Info via Quicket. Facebook: www.facebook.com/comedyonlong.

• Improguise every Monday at The Galloway Theatre. 8pm. Info: 072 939 3351.

• Comedy at Mercury Live, 43 De Villiers Street, Zonnebloem, on Wednesdays. Tickets from R30 at the door (open at 8pm). Stand-up comedy on the last Wednesday of the month, improvisation otherwise. Info: 021 465 2106.

• Comedy at Chilli Bar, 5 Victoria Road, Southfield, at 8pm on Thursdays. R30. See www.thechillibar.co.za.

• Comedy at Obviouzly Armchair Backpackers and Pub, 135 Lower Main Road, Observatory, every Sunday. 8.30pm to 10.30pm.

• To appear in Boardwalk, please e-mail all theatre- and production-related information to Atiyyah Khan at Atzushka@ gmail.com by Thursday afternoon for publication on Tuesday. Please put “boardwalk” in the subject line of your e-mail.

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