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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 14 April - 20 April 2016 ÷ Issue 48 ‘Sophiatown’ comes to the State Theatre – page 4 Blues man tunes his sound – page 6 - Page 8 ‘The Jungle Book’ gets a cinematic makeover GoodLuck and co. to rock Parklife – page 7 Follow us online: @48hoursinjoburg www.facebook.com/48hoursinjoburg GAUTENG ECO ADVENTURE OUTDOOR & TRAVEL EXPO 27 - 29 MAY 2016 WATERFALL POLO ESTATE, MIDRAND CNR R55 (WOODMEAD DR) & MAXWELL DR, OPPOSITE WATERFALL VIRGIN ACTIVE 200 EXHIBITS - LOTS TO SEE & DO! 4x4s, CARAVANS, TRAILERS, BOATS OUTDOOR ACCESSORIES, TRAVEL & TOURISM SATURDAY, 28 MAY LIVE ON BIG SCREEN SELF DRIVE 4x4 TRACK 3pm Stormers vs Cheetahs LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 5pm Blue Bulls vs Lions GOOD FOOD, CRAFT BEER Bring your mates. Table bookings essential: SHOW TIMES & TICKET INFORMATION: [email protected] GOOD FOOD, CRAFT BEER, BILTONG, ALL DAY FAMILY FUN! BOERIE ROLLS & MORE UNTIL 8PM! @outdoorexpo1 Outdoor Eco Adventure www.outdoorexpo.co.za #outdoorexpomidrand and Travel Expo The Next 48hOURS • Socials MTN Joyous Celebration 20th anniversary at Carnival City Seen at the SA Classic and Grand White at Turffontein Silverstar celebrated the halfway mark to the Slots Chase Tournament finals, with special guests experiencing the thrill of Slots Chase 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 14 April - 20 April 2016 The Next 48hOURS • What’s Hot Travelling & Living with the stars In this regular column, we chat to helps, but mostly it comes down to What is your speciality in the kitch- some of SA’s premier personalities research. Find out what’s out there en? about their travel experiences and (using the Google) and go do what I make a pretty mean bolognaise. favourite local pastimes and haunts. interests you. This week we catch up with ALASTAIR Describe your ideal night in, and THOMAS, lead singer of Joburg- Flying – love it, or hate it? out. based indie rock band, Shortstraw. Tolerate it. Sleeping pills are your In: Mooching with boo and my pups The group will light up Arcade Em- friend. on the couch with a lekker scary pire in Pretoria along with Al Bairre movie and one of those nacho piz- and December Streets on Friday, What has been your favourite cui- zas. April 15, as part of Euro Safari. sine that you have discovered on Out: Watching bands at a not-too- your travels? crowded venue with good pals. Must What is your favourite travel desti- The best chicken wings in the world have: enough barmen, tequila special nation, and why? Shortstraw, with Alastair Thomas far right are in Japan at a restaurant called and a pool/foosball table. This’ll be different for each of us, but Yamachan. Fact. personally anywhere with a beach What makes life worth living? chair and an excessive cocktail is a You’ve got exactly R48 in your wal- Making people happy. And dogs. win for me. watch my favourite band at the time, climated? let. Where do you go for lunch in so it was real special. Can’t remember Find the nearest pub. Jozi, and what do you have? * Keep up with Shortstraw via Twit- What was your first international much else for some reason, though. Hectic. Probably Wits campus at ter: @shortstrawband trip, and what do you remember What for you is usually the best the canteen. You could get like five Or visit shortstraw.co.za. most vividly about the experience? What is the first thing you usually way to soak up the culture you’re meals for that. Otherwise come to my Book for Euro Safari at www.ticibox. My first international trip was to Am- do when you arrive at your desti- in? house and I’ll make you a sarmie and com. sterdam when I was 22. I went to go nation and you’re trying to get ac- Getting to know a few locals always we can spend the R48 on some beers. Comedy stylings you can Banks on at Montecasino omics Choice Awards Life- how to raise and train your very own need new glasses to read the classi- Complete the following: Favourite time Achiever Recipient Mark member of parliament. fieds. movie; book; music album; song; Banks will blaze back onto John Vlismas, Creative Director midnight snack; holiday destina- the stage with his critically of Whacked: Special Project, refers What is Mark Banks like to hang out tion; lunch spot. Cacclaimed revue ‘Banksrupt!’, show- to Banks as a pioneer of the sketch with when he’s not in “performance Movie: ‘Marathon Man’ with Dustin ing at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino format. “Mark’s’ sketch work in the mode”? Hoffman. Theatre and Studio from April 18 to 1980s was edgy, theatrical, subver- Truly very boring. A lot of people Book: 101 uses for a lost Dutch May 29. Mixing up-to-the-minute sive and very inventive. When I saw who don’t know what I do think I Tourist. stand-up with Banks’s invented zany him for the first time in the Playhouse work in the Koeberg Nuclear power Music album: Songs for amputation, characters, video, visual effects and Studio it was a powerful moment for plant publicity department for spe- or music to have it off by. comedy sketches, ‘Banksrupt!’ deliv- me, because I suddenly knew clearly cial events. Song: On the ‘Sunny Side of the ers a quick-fire, laugh a minute, rip- what I wanted to do”. Street’ by The Benny Goodman Sex- roaring one man show from a sea- He continues to explain that What do you contemplate whenever tet. soned comedy legend who is at the Banks is the quintessential jester, an you’re alone at night, illuminated by Midnight snack: Avocado pear and top of his game. As Peter Feldman anarchist with intellect and insight, candlelight? Marmite toast with soft boiled egg noted in his The Next 48hOURS re- putting comedy and discomfort right The Meaning of Laugh. while waiting for the chops to grill. view when the show ran in Sandton next to each other. Holiday destination: New York City. last year, “nothing escapes this co- Any pet peeves? median’s eagle eye.” The next 48hOURS touched base People who drive slowly in the fast Who are your comedy heroes? Banks explains that the title with banks to get more of a lane. People who show you things Buffoons in power. Tommy Cooper ‘Banksrupt!’ is about where we are sense of this singular comedian’s on their phones. Dentists with very (the British prop comedian and ma- as a nation – financially, morally, worldview. hairy noses. People who tell you how gician). and mentally broke – and he duly to braai at a braai. Stupid tourists. sketches out the villains behind this When did it first become apparent Estate agents that stalk you on the How universal do you think South sorry state in which the country finds to you that you could make people phone. People who don’t return calls. African comedy is? itself, obviously all tongue-in-cheek laugh, and how soon after that did Paying for plastic carrier bags. Me- Completely universal. Don’t forget, to keep it humorous and interesting. you realise you could actually turn teorites. Pencil sharpeners we had in most South Africans live in the world Audiences will meet characters your talent into a career? school with the wind handle. Blue and they have taken their “humour” and situations from everyday life in I say this modestly, but I think from Stilton cheese. Soggy sandwiches. with them. I heard “Wynberg!” being South Africa: from classically trained birth. I can never remember a mo- People who say “when I was your screamed in Istanbul by a mini-bus car guards, to a beginner’s guide to ment in my life where I wasn’t do- age.” Enamel paint. Fountains that taxi driver once. protesting performed by the Jewish ing something “stupid”. If you can don’t work. Cat burglars. Very fat Women’s Guild of Yemen; from the do that and get paid for it... I keep pug dogs. These are just a few. I hope * Book at Computicket. world’s first news reader mugging, to meaning to try and find a job, but I Mark Banks to enlarge in our next interview. Studio Theatre Montecasino (011) 511 1818 14 April - 20 April 2016 www.48hours.co.za The Next 48hOURS 3 The Next 48hOURS • Theatre Buzz Passion the driver behind tenacious, Naledi nominated directors By Peter Feldman Stead said it was always very music to relax - usually classical and gratifying to have one’s work ac- opera. Hardly ever musicals!” wo prominent Durban stage knowledged, and he was glad that Talking about the state of South directors have been nomi- the Naledi’s had introduced the new African theatre, Stead said the phrase nated for prestigious Naledi category for Director of Musical The- “the theatre industry” makes him Theatre Awards, which takes atre.