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GET YOUR COPY with your JOBURG MR DELIVERY order from FREE Thurs-Sat each week YOUR FREE GUIDE TO YOUR FREE TIME 31 March - 06 April 2016 ÷ Issue 46 Locnville on Life & Travel – page 3 We sit down with an SA acting legend – page 4 Josh Groban back to serenade Jozi - Page 6 UK funk band to rock Follow us online: @48hoursinjoburg www.facebook.com/48hoursinjoburg Emmarentia Dam – page 9 The Next 48hOURS • Socials Team Brimstone in full force at the Two Oceans Marathon Pictures by Andrew brown Kevin Hart meets SA fans with Savanna Premium Cider Pictures by Johann botha EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial COnTRIbutors Editorial Address The Next 48hOURS is published by Managing Editor: Naushad Khan Jenny Morris Postal: P.O. Box 830, Rani Communications. Every effort has Publisher/Editor: Imran Khan Peter Feldman Maitland, 7404 been made to ensure the accuracy of Production Editor: Peter Tromp RoxyK the information provided. Editorial Assistant: Aisha Sieed Imran Khan Actual: 12 Main Rd. The Next 48hOURS will not be held Three Anchor Bay responsible for the views and opinions Senior Designer: Dane Torode Tel: 021 8024848 National Sales: Godfrey Lancellas [email protected] expressed by writers and contributors. All rights reserved. 2 The Next 48hOURS www.48hours.co.za 31 March - 06 April 2016 The Next 48hOURS • What’s Hot Travelling & Living with the stars n this regular column, we chat to walking on that big piano on the some of SA’s premier personali- floor, that’s F.A.O. Schwarz. ties about their travel experienc- brian: New York was the first inter- es and favourite local pastimes national trip I can vividly remember, Iand haunts. Drew and I must have been eight This week we catch up with identi- at the time and we went with my cal twin pop hit makers and heart- mother to visit her mom. We went to throbs, Andrew and Brian Chaplin, Broadway to see ‘The Nutcracker’. We also known as Locnville. went to all the big toy stores there and I remember being absolutely What is your favourite travel desti- blown away by the size and scale of nation, and why? everything. I’ll never forget that trip, Andrew: I would have to say Ger- because I got to wear gloves and many. I spent almost three months scarves for the first time, because it there and absolutely loved the place. was snowing and it made me feel Everything from the culture, scenery grown up at the time. and people left a very big impression on me and I would go back there in What is the first thing you usually a heartbeat. do when you arrive at your desti- brian: I really love Europe as a nation and you’re trying to get ac- whole, and I’ve loved everywhere I’ve climated? travelled there but if I had to pick Andrew: First things first, take a The Chaplin brothers as Locnville one place, I’d say Berlin in Germany. shower and have a drink. Then I can I think the reason I loved it so much think about everything rationally and was the people I was with and the take it from there. you’re from, and there you have it. really hate airports. Airports in the brian: My speciality is Asian style places we went to. It’s one of the brian: One of the first things I do brian: My favourite thing to do is States are the absolute worst ever cuisine. I love making stir fries, or most vibrant and diverse cities I’ve is organise a local sim card so I can get the tourist stuff out of the way since TSA (Transportation Security anything with a Teriyaki touch. ever been to and I’d happily move be in touch immediately. After that, I as quickly as possible, then I’ll speak Administration) was introduced. So there one day. like to go straight to where I’m stay- to locals and find out how to experi- basically, flying is a yay but airports Describe your ideal night in, and ing so I can unpack and freshen up, ence the city as if I were living there. are a nay. out. What was your first international then I go off and explore the place. I feel that “tourist spots” are relative- Andrew: My ideal night in is get- trip, and what do you remember ly the same thing wherever you go in What has been your favourite cui- ting one with the couch and watch- most vividly about the experience? What for you is usually the best the world, so to be able to experience sine that you have discovered on ing 3D movies. My ideal night out Andrew: New York would be the way to soak up the culture you’re a place as a local is the real prize. your travels? is at a lounge style bar with friends, first international trip I took that in? Andrew: Favourite food that I dis- sipping fine things and eating tapas I remember really well. I was really Andrew: Walk the streets and talk Flying – love it, or hate it? covered while travelling is Curry- style food. young at the time so my most vivid to people. The best way to do that Andrew: It really depends. Usually I wurst, a German staple that I abso- brian: For a night in, I like watching memory was going to F.A.O. Schwarz, is find out what the sort of “local hate it, but if I’m on Emirates and in lutely love. 3D movies. I’m a self-admitted 3D which is a massive toy store. It’s been hang out” is and go there and sit at Business Class I never want the flight brian: Good Mexican food. There’s snob - if the movie isn’t in 3D, I’m featured in a lot of movies, if you’ve the bar. Chances are someone will to end. something about burritos that I ab- usually not interested. For a night seen the movie ‘Big’ where they start spark up a conversation asking where brian: Generally, I like flying, I just solutely love. But it has to be au- out, it really depends on what mood thentic. Real Mexican food isn’t just I’m in. I really like being with friends, tortillas and cheese. and we’re all really busy these days so we like to meet up at a bar or lounge so we can have drinks, but still talk You’ve got exactly R48 in your wal- and catch up. If I’m feeling wild, let. Where do you go for lunch in you’ll see me out painting the town Cape Town, Durban and in Joburg, red and all sorts of colours. and what do you have? Andrew: The only thing you can get What makes life worth living? with that amount of money is Mc- Andrew: Achievements. Donald’s, in all three places. Other- brian: Happiness. It’s not even a wise I’d just go to a friend’s place corny answer anymore - if you’re and ask them for something. happy and you can wake up every Brian: For R48 these days, you may day to do something you love with as well just eat the money. people you love, that is truly what makes life worth living. What is your speciality in the kitch- en? * Keep up with Locnville on Twitter: Andrew: Asian cuisine. I also make @Locnville some of the best chicken wings in Locnville in concert at a recent Barnyard Theatre gig the world, guaranteed. Kevin Hart meets SA fans with Savanna Premium Cider Studio Theatre Montecasino (011) 511 1818 31 March - 06 April 2016 www.48hours.co.za The Next 48hOURS 3 The Next 48hOURS • Theatre Buzz An SA theatre doyenne on the state of the local stage PETER FELDMAn talks to theatre ets of her personality as is possible vegetarian spread, as “laughter over veteran FIOnA RAMSAY about her within the text. I spent most of the meals is the quintessential relax- two naledi Theatre Award nomi- production in bed - aging movie star ation”, but going on safari to the nations. grappling with getting older, losing bush is how she truly unwinds and her glamour and youth and having recharges the Ramsay batteries. iona Ramsay is one of South to face her daughter and their shared Asked what she thought of the Africa’s most gifted actresses histories - and find as much range state of South African theatre, she who has been treading the within that bed as possible.” replied: “Theatre reflects society and boards for many, many years. Talking about ‘Doubt’, Ramsay ‘holds the mirror up to nature’ as it FThis year, two of the productions said it was a “finely crafted play were, and therefore echoes and inter- in which she shone, ‘Doubt’ and ‘Miss with clear characters and of course rogates all that is going on around Diedrich Regrets’, have been nomi- a film exists of the work - the chal- us at any time. I think we have an nated for prestigious Naledi Theatre lenge is not to be swayed by previ- amazing mix of theatre in terms of Awards, with the prize giving cer- ous interpretations. Sister Aloysius content, style and form, which reflect emony taking place at the Lyric The- Beauvier belongs to an order of stern the many different expectations of atre, Gold Reef City, on April 19. and stoic nuns - where expression what theatre is. There are many new Now in its 12th year, the Naledi is neither voluble, expansive or vis- plays being work-shopped or written Theatre awards reflect the vibrant ibly emotional.