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Article: FULL-BODIED FLAIR.(Entertainment)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2008
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Development programmes can be rather dry affairs. Not so Flare, Clare Stopford's mission at The Actors Centre, in association with The Market Theatre, to skill potential female directors.
So far, so very good. Three of the six chosen theatre professionals showcased their abilities last week in a diversity of productions. The common element was freedom to explore, on limited budgets, the theatre making process and professional production values.
Lindiwe Matshikiza, showing substantial directorial flair, tackled Amiri Baraka's racial mind game Dutchman, written in the '60s and set on a New York subway train. The set at The Lab was cleverly conceptualised ...