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Article: Flipping 'Figaro' in Cape Town.(Entertainment)
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- Cape Argus (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 15, 2006
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BYLINE: Fiona Chisholm
American theatre and opera director Chuck Hudson enjoys doing backward flips as much as he does spending three hours with Marcel Marceau in the contemplative study of a hand.
Movement and mime are the forte of this competitive gymnast- turned-actor and award-winning director, who is here to stage Mozart's comic opera Le Nozze di Figaro at the Baxter from Sunday at 6pm followed by four perfor-mances at 7.30pm.
Cape Town Opera and students of the UCT Opera School are presenting the production - to the delight of this 43-year-old from New York City. He, like the visiting American conductor Kamal Khan, particularly enjoys ...