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Air you can breathe

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:37:27 +0000

At the Wits panel on ‘decolonization’ the rage was palpable, the anxiety intense. Like many of the confrontations in our society, it was all about race, and racial identity. But is there more to the argument? Often the most important intentions that are communicated are obscured by the noise of fear and anger. The message [...]

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Phillippa Yaa – The river

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:28:53 +0000

by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers One day the Hillbrow tower started to cry. Real tears poured down its sides collected in the gutters and ran down Banket Street. When the other buildings saw the tower’s sadness, they started to weep in sympathy. Soon the whole city was sobbing, the tears joined other tears and collected [...]

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Thanks for nothing Cell C

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:09:31 +0000

When you’re in trouble, serious trouble, like your heart is about to stop, you need people around you that you can count on. Cell C is not that people. Cell C likes to call itself a service provider. They provide the service of keeping people in contact with each other for reasonable fees. However, when [...]

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MAKE YOUR PASSION YOUR DAY JOB

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:48:05 +0000

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. Robert Graves Yesterday I attended a workshop with an amazing musician, actor and personality, Idris Ackamoor. With a 40-year career, with lots of ups and downs, the first thing he told the assembled artistic hopefuls was: take yourself seriously as an artist. [...]

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Body of Words Review (Part 3)

Matthew Mokoena — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:50:14 +0000

So I leave the ladies to do their thing, check out the theatre before everyone else comes in and I am greet by the magical sounds of Jimmy Dludlu. Lebo (not Mashile), Kg and Thato (all 4th year students of the Market Theatre Lab) are handling the technical aspect of the show and promise us [...]

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Body of Words Review (Part 2)

Matthew Mokoena — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:27:25 +0000

Natalia brings the room to a hush. With words in a tumble, characters with a magnetic charm dressed by music (and boy can she sing.) In fact, in her opening piece she speaks of bodies singing, listening to eulogies, dissolving the winds breath… She says, “… these bodies release the truth to what the soul [...]

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Body of Words Review (Part 1)

Matthew Mokoena — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:56:15 +0000

The Lab (Market Theatre Complex) came alive mid May as it hosted the Majesty of seven of SA’s finest literary scientists. Of course these outspoken women are not scientists in the conventional sense; how appropriately ironic though that their 1st Experiment together (A Body of Words) be presented at THE LAB THEATRE. In my mind [...]

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