FREE YOUR FREE GUIDE TO YOUR FREE TIME ÷ 8 September - 14 September 2017 ÷ Issue 689 Triumphant ‘The Fall’ returns to the stage – page 4 - Page 3 Oscar winner lights up Cirque style new drama – page 6 entertainment in ‘Enchanted’ Local musos to celebrate SA heritage – page 8 Follow us online: @48hrsincapetown • www.facebook.com/next48hours • www.48hours.co.za The BEST way to see Cape Town and Table Mountain! 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Inside the device is Indiegogo and raised more than globe like you were a native speaker… specially designed noise cancelling US$4 million in funds to develop the It sounds like an idea out of science microphones that filter out ambient technology. fiction; something you might expect noises. While the first batch has already to see in a ‘Star Trek’ episode, or in The Pilot connects to the translat- been delivered to backers by May a comic book. This week’s gadget is ing app on your Smartphone and just 2017, Waverly labs are currently tak- one that fulfils all those ideas and the like that you are ready to go. In con- ing orders for the next batch, which best part of it all I that it is available versation, the ear piece will pick up promises to be even more advanced right now. layers of speech which it will send to and in a wider range of colours. Waverly Labs have developed the your Smartphone. Pilot will be able to translate be- world’s first smart earpiece language It is then up to the magic of the tween English, French, Italian, Por- translator. The device, known as the Waverly Labs translation engine to tuguese and Spanish out of the box, ‘Pilot’, uses the latest technologies in break up the speech and convert the but more languages will join this list speech recognition, app development spoken language in to the pre-select- soon. and wearable technology to cross ed second language. Pre order your pair of the Pilot language barriers. We have all been The translation process is close to Transalting earpiece now at www. in a situation sometime or another being seamless for the first release, waverlylabs.com for $249 and it will where being lost in translation is a with almost simultaneous translation. ship to South Africa during the sec- The Pilot translator connects to any smartphone real issue, whether you just wanted We did find that you have to talk at ond half of 2017. ADVERTORIAL International festival of Jewish Enjoy a new adventure with music and theatre for Mother City all the Tyger Valley ‘Kidz A forgotten cabaret script in a damp strongly: Cantors Ivor Joffe and whilst reconstructing the story based Helsinki cellar; Russian choral music Choni Goldman are joined by their upon survivor testimony. Skouspeel’ characters slowly disintegrating into a trunk in respective choirs in the opening con- Looking forward through the past: a Cape Town garage; Fragments of cert at the Gardens Synagogue on A symposium at Jannasch Hall, Stel- satirical dramas lying forgotten in a September 10 at 4.30pm. lenbosch University and at the Kaplan cupboard in a Prague apartment... Two of South Africa’s most lauded Centre UCT are open to the public. These are just a few of the musi- composers, Hendrik Hofmeyr (UCT) Entrance is free. Chair is Dr Stephen cal and theatrical treasures that will and Hans Roosenschoon (Stellenbos- Muir - University of Leeds. be brought “out of the shadows” at a ch Konservatorium), will introduce “We face a refugee crisis of similar significant eight-day festival in Cape ‘New Songs from the Jewish Archive’ proportion to that of post-war Eu- Town and Stellenbosch from Sep- - two concerts of their students’ rope. During displacement and exile, tember 10 to 17. newly-composed songs based upon artists created and talked about their Following on after festivals in PtJA research, performed by singers conditions. The works in our festival USA, UK, and Australia where all Jolene McClelland and Minette du bear witness to the dignity, honesty events were sold out, “Out of the Toit Pearce, and backed by an ensem- and circumspection of artists’ visions Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish music ble including Farida Bacharova, Peter in the face of indifference and closed and theatre” features star-studded Martens and Albie van Schalkwyk. doors in the 30s and 40s,” comments local and international artists funded Other events will take place at the Dr Joseph Toltz of Sydney Conserva- by the UK Arts & Humanities Re- Baxter Concert Hall, the Methodist torium of Music, Australia. search Council’s major project. Church Hall in Observatory and the Aviva Pelham, doyenne of South Drostdy Theatre, Stellenbosch, in- For more information, visit www. African opera and theatre, directs ‘A cluding ‘Prinz Bettliegend’, a satirical ptja.leeds.ac.uk/festivals and Comedy of us Jews’ (from the Hel- musical revue written by prisoners in follow the links to Cape town. sinki archives) at Cape Town’s Jewish the Theresienstadt Ghetto. This ad- tickets are available via Compu- Museum, accompanied by clarinet- aptation preserves the jazz melodies ticket. ist Matthew Reid and his ensemble, of the original ghetto production alongside Michelle Maxwell (ac- claimed in the Fugard Theatre’s re- cent ‘Funny Girl’). Promising to raise the roof of the Cape Town City Hall is the modern- day premiere of ‘Serenade for Large Symphony Orchestra’ (actually a double orchestra) by Viennese émigré composer Wilhelm Grosz, performed Join in on the fun on September 9 and 10 as part of the Cape Town Philhar- monic Symphony Season by the CPO Back by popular demand is ‘Kidz Kidz Skouspeel 4, The Big Spring in a new edition by PtJA researcher Skouspeel 4’ – with all your favorite Ball, will entertain young and old. Joseph Toltz. characters on one stage. Join us on September 9 and 10 for By contrast, the Cape Soloists Let the little ones be mesmer- this whimsical showcase filled with Choir will appear at Rondebosch’s ized with Princess Arena and her fun and adventure. Erin Hall, directed by PtJA’s Project friends, Lollos and Lettie, Tjiff & Leader Dr Stephen Muir, in a pro- Tjaff, Liewe Heksie and Tyger Val- For more information, visit gramme of rediscovered Russian syn- ley’s very own mascots - Tom and www.tygervalley.co.za. agogue music that Dr Muir chanced Tina the tigers. For ticket purchases, visit www. upon amongst a private family col- computicket.co.za. lection in Cape Town in 2012. Local personalities also feature Dr Peter Martens, Out of the Shadows Cape Town Festival Co- ordinator The Next 48hOURS is published by EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial addrEss Editorial Contributors Rani Communications. Every effort has Managing Editor: Naushad Khan Postal: P.O. Box 830, Jenny Morris Maitland, 7404 been made to ensure the accuracy of Production Editor: Peter Tromp Rafiek Mammon the information provided. Senior Designer: Dane Torode RoxyK Actual: 12 Main Rd. The Next 48hOURS will not be held National Sales: Godfrey Lancellas Imran Khan Three Anchor Bay responsible for the views and opinions Photographer Abdurahman Khan Tel: 021 8024848 expressed by writers and contributors. [email protected] All rights reserved. 2 The Next 48hOURS www.48hours.co.za 8 September - 14 September 2017 The Next 48hOURS • What’s Hot Gadget Buddies: A translator like no other mother city fine dining GABRIËLSKLOOF: Hearty, honest soul food prepared with love By Bianca Coleman Bosman) and dressed with a drizzle desserts. What on earth are milk tart of truffle oil. Often this ingredient is souskluitjies? Thank you for asking. abriëlskloof is a beautiful promised but the distinctive flavour They are milk tart “dumplings” served modern winery set on top of and aroma doesn’t follow through; in a bath of burnt honey custard. a hill just outside Bot River, this was not the case here, as the dish Intensely sweet, they are a popular and on that farm is a restau- delivered everything the menu de- pudding here. After all the bread, the Grant owned and run by Frans (in the scription promised. waitress probably thought I was mad kitchen) and Mariaan (front of house) I seldom order soup as a starter to order the gluten-free pear and al- Groenewald, where they specialise in because it tends to be very filling, mond cake with Chantilly cream, but hearty, honest, soul food prepared especially such a thick one as this. I there you go. with love. know we broke Frans’s heart because The joys of not having dietary re- The Groenewalds are passionate we didn’t order any of his fabulous strictions means I can be whatever I about everything local and source main course items like lightly cured want, whenever I want. most of their produce from neigh- hake served with mussel, chorizo and The restaurant also serves break- The heritage braai feast is on September 24 bouring farms and villages, and the prawn paella, Asian-style duck leg fast, with the usual dishes like a menu changes frequently.