Cape Town Boardwalk - October 7, 2014

Dirty Words

Dirty Words

Published Oct 7, 2014

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• Cinderella ends Saturday at the Nassau Theatre. Performed by the Lilliput Children’s Theatre Company. 10am. R55 at Computicket.

• The Champion ends tomorrow at the Baxter Theatre. A man who grew up without his biological father lacks direction. 7pm. R25 at Computicket.

• Violet Online runs until October 18 at the Alexander Bar. A 40-something divorcee’s adventure into online dating. 9pm. R90. Info: 021 300 1088.

• The Baxter Theatre Dance Festival 2014 runs until Saturday, October 18 at the Baxter Theatre. This festival aims to both provide emerging and established choreographers as well as dance companies with an opportunity to present their work. 8pm. R100 at Computicket.

• Venus and Adonis runs until October 19 at The Fugard Theatre. Based on the classical myth, the tragedy tells the story of Venus’s affair with Adonis, nd his death from a mortal wound inflicted by an enormous boar. 6pm. R130 at Computicket. See the review inside.

• Silent Voice runs until November 1 at the Baxter Theatre Centre. Aubrey Sekhabi’s high-octane armed heist thriller. 8.15pm R100 at Computicket.

• Dirty Words ends October 19 at the Kalk Bay Theatre. Filthy, explicit and incredibly funny, plays pulls back the covers on erotica, chat sex, dirty talk and naughty sexy grammar. 8.30pm. R120. Info: 079 361 8275.

• My Word! Redesigning Buckingham Palace ends Saturday at the District Six Museum Homecoming Centre. A one-man show performed by Basil Appollis that is a celebration of the life and work of writer Richard Rive. 3pm. R80. Info: 021 466 7200.

• The Symphony Choir of Cape Town will perform Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Vivaldi’s Gloria on October 17 at the St Georges Cathedral.8pm. R140 at Computicket.

• Athol Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye runs until October 25 at the Alexander Bar, CBD. Set in the 1960s against a gritty Port Elizabeth, it tells the story of two poor white South Africans, an estranged brother and sister who meet again after 12 years.7pm. R90. Info: 021 300 1088.

• Constellations ends Saturday at the Theatre on the Bay. A love story based on the idea of possibility. 8pm. R95 to R185 at Computicket.

• The Garage Sale ends Saturday at the Artscape Theatre. A play that explores the darker, yet funnier side of Cape Town surburbia. 7.30pm. R55 at Computicket. See review inside.

• The Rocky Horrow Show runs until November 2 at The Fugard Theatre. 8pm. R90 to R310 at Computicket.

• Jou Ma se Comedy Club runs from Wednesday to Sunday at The Pumphouse, V&A Waterfront. 8.30pm.R95. See www.jou masecomedy.com or call 021 447 7237.

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

• Comedy at Mercury Live, Zonnebloem, on Wednesdays. 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 & Pub, Observatory, every Sunday. 8.30pm to 10.30pm.

• To appear in Boardwalk, e-mail theatre information to Atiyyah Khan at Atzushka@ gmail.com by Thursday afternoon for publication on Tuesday. Put ‘boardwalk’ in the subject line.

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