Twenty years on, Eurafrica could almost be read as a direct post-apartheid riposte: a madcap, merciless comedy romp by white South Africans – director Ilana Wetzler, and actresses Sarah Jane Scott and Lucy Heavens – sending up all things politically sacred in their own country, and here, with all the sensitivity of a marauding lynch [...]
Eurafrica is an irreverent, rip-snorting satire that shoves a manicured middle-finger at quaint socio-political ideologies. It is a compelling palimpsest on which contemporary SA culture is rewritten in arsenic-laced humour and glorious absurdism… The play follows the fate of these characters via a script laced together with razor-wire…It pokes at conventional understandings of various ideologies [...]
The show is mostly an indictment of political insincerity. The creators lampoon the electioneering process when their characters try to sell their inordinate idea to the masses. Right now, with director Ilana Wetzler, they have delivered a slick show that will have audiences in fits of laughter, but also questioning their own political stances. South [...]
…The skit-based play, through droll, razor-sharp humour explores the serious “banter” that is actually on the minds of many white South Africans. And, by placing the core in the hands of Queen Victoria and Cecil John Rhodes as well as two “new-age” young white females, the possibilities are endless for what they can explore – [...]
Ever felt like aiming for your car guard’s knees while he directs your parking manoeuvres by flapping his arms about uselessly? Or smiled at him afterwards and simpered off only to try to sneak back unseen so you can get away R2 richer and guilt-free? You should go see Eur-Africa. And even if you HAVEN’T, [...]
(First Like Honey article, 2005) Music to Melt By is the aptly titled addendum to Serotonin Productions’ new musical showcase…the Serotonin production company aims to live up to its name as “the happy drug” by offering comedy or music which “raises people’s spirits”. Their latest Like Honey venture hopes to do just that with a [...]
BEFORE Louise Carver and Alanis Morissette hit the big time as chart-topping recording artists, they started out playing to smaller crowds in intimate venues. Thanks largely to women like them, it has become a lot easier to picture female singer/songwriters playing in coffee shops and bars, but the reality is that for an unsigned artist, [...]
…The emotional quality of the hour-and-a-half performance meandered, like the colours of a rainbow. Delicacy, tenderness, sturdy sharpness, subdued quiet, boldness. But perhaps the most fitting description for the show is honesty. The music pleases the ears, but the story-telling, the strength of character (and the high-cut tops) were testament to the integrity of the [...]
Cape Town Rocks 2 – Songs from Like Honey Like Fire | Jayne Mayne, Cape Times It’s quite a challenge to maintain a cohesive musical energy on a compilation with a range of completely different artists, but this second in the Rocks series (this time from Serotonin Productions) has a surprisingly interconnected thread. From the [...]
A talented cross-section of Mother City musicians have come together to produce a compilation CD, Cape TownRocks, of some of their best songs that will be launched at the Independent Armchair Theatre tomorrow. Some of the artists on the 16-track showcase CD include: Zaria, Paul Abro, Gavin Coetzee, Matthew Gair, Julia Conradie, Al Paton, Matt [...]
Like Honey is not just a show, but a concept, created and hosted by Ilana Wetzler of Serotonin Productions, which allows a platform for undiscovered talent to gain public and professional recognition. These hand-picked musicians, who write and play their own songs, have been brought barefoot from their bedrooms onto the concert stage and have [...]
*The cost of the event was estimated athalf a million Rand including venue, decoration, auction material, alcohol, crew etc, but it wassingle-handedly created without any budget whatsoever. Including the two initial donations, R400 000 was raised on the night. A Spotacular Event On the 22nd of March, a very excited, yet nervous Cape Leopard Trust [...]
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