GET YOUR COPY with your MR DELIVERY order from FREE Thurs-Sat each week YOUR FREE GUIDE TO YOUR FREE TIME ÷ 18 February - 24 February 2016 ÷ Issue 611 Play exposes dark underbelly of politics – page 3 Clooney takes us back to 50s Hollywood – page 8 - Page 10 Emerging artists bare their hearts through art LaLiga is coming to Cape Town – page 11 Follow us online: @48hrsincapetown • www.facebook.com/next48hours • www.48hours.co.za The Next 48hOURS • Socials Seen at The Discovery Sport Industry Awards 2016 at Sandton Convention Centre - Pictures by Gallo Images Post Valentine’s Day thoughts Looking for interesting things has Am I fast-forwarding or rewind- ers (especially to younger folk) when How does one, for example, un- become part of me, like an append- ing? Actually neither. I am right they say: “Just be yourself.” How derstand “light” if one cannot open age: observing and listening to eve- where I need to be. A re-watching does one “be yourself” if you have oneself to understanding “dark- Encore rything and everyone absorbedly so of ‘Scent of a Woman’ refers. It is no idea who the hell you are? We are ness”? And, I have also always main- that I might find my topic(s) for the the scene where Al Pacino’s character too often so many different versions tained that you only get to know By Rafiek Mammon week to write about. defends Chris O’ Donnell’s character of ourselves. And when we are no your true self if you are prepared to [email protected] Sometimes I get close to deadline at a school hearing, and he speaks longer around someone remembers spend real quality time with said self day and I have very little to write (in pure Pacino style) about snitches some version of who they thought and bare your honest thoughts and about, but the minute I am at the and integrity and about his soul not you were…like a fading polaroid. feelings. t was Monday already (Febru- computer, the “very little” soon be- being up for sale, and about how The story of the black and the And I don’t mean taking that long ary 15) and I had no idea what comes enough, and pretty soon the there are no prosthetics for the soul white swan and what they represent bath with candles as prescribed by Encore was going to be about latter becomes too much, and I have as there are for body parts etc etc. in the life of the protagonist, and of shrewd marketing on the shopping yet. Usually, my drill is to have to cut it to size…and I love this pro- Elementary, my dear Watson. But how art imitates life and vice versa network, trying to sell you some or Iit ready by a Sunday – sometimes cess…week after week. It reminds me that very night I also opened a birth- are personified in an absolutely rivet- other bathroom products. I mean even sending it in on the Sunday of my life: just when you think there day gift that was given to me two ing film. Before seeing it I was con- alone, introspective time. You would especially if I know I have a hectic is little to look forward to, life hap- years ago. sistently warned about its “eeriness” be surprised at the muck that accu- week ahead or, if I am 90-odd per- pens…in abundance! I know…I am a terrible human and its “darkness”. And yes, it is dark mulates (and lurks) under the floor- cent satisfied with it by then. Oth- I start by jotting down some being – only opening the gift now. and eerie, but the film is about so boards of the soul. erwise I mull it over overnight, have points and before I know it, points It was a DVD copy of ‘Black Swan’ much more than that. And yes, there Sometimes that relentless, even another read on the Monday, do a become lucid and disjointed ideas – a beautiful film that explores that are the obvious differences between ruthless quest for happiness that of- tweak if necessary and then submit. become meaningful connections be- strange relationship between com- the black and the white swans and ten eludes us is not all it is cracked My deadline is only on a Tuesday tween dots. Like I said: much like life passion and cruelty that live so ef- what they represent, but I always up to be, and said pursuit is not all though, so I would have another – sometimes the very little we have fortlessly side-by-side in one heart. maintained that perspective is what that life is about. Once found, it can day just in case I ponder or stumble left to give, sparks off a series of gifts How souls struggle within, to just will determine how one responds to be quite ephemeral. on an interesting thought overnight that just keep on giving. And, some- have a sense of who they really are. things, especially art. And perspective We need filters. After all, desire that I might want to insert the fol- times within the very bedlam, order So many people think that it is the is often founded on the “baggage” without filters can be a most unat- lowing day. is created. This is the case this week… most profound advice to give to oth- or history we bring to the context. tractive, even dangerous thing. 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. Editorial Assistant: Aisha Sieed RoxyK Actual: 12 Main Rd. The Next 48hOURS will not be held Senior Designer: Dane Torode Imran Khan Three Anchor Bay responsible for the views and opinions National Sales: Godfrey Lancellas Martin Myers Tel: 021 8024848 expressed by writers and contributors. [email protected] All rights reserved. 2 The Next 48hOURS www.48hours.co.za 19 February - 25 February 2016 The Next 48hOURS • What’s Hot Award winning SA play back on the planks with a twist or two ETER TROMP chatted with were able to pick up momentum. It the director and cast of the helps that Louis, Pierre and Rebecca dark politically themed dra- are patient and generous souls. They ma ‘The Kingmakers’, which made my assimilation into the play willP be showing at the Fugard Studio very painless from Tuesday, February 23, to March 19. What is the biggest challenge in The production netted Louis Viljoen getting to grips with Louis Viljoen’s two Fleur du Cap awards in 2015 in muscular prose? the Best New Script and Best New I love that description, “muscular Director categories. It is back with a prose”, so much. The challenge is a brand new cast member on a brand joyous one, because the language is new stage. rich and full, and one can never do it justice on first reading. So it’s quite THE MaSTERMInD intimidating, actually. After our first table reading I thought, “Oh no, I was Louis Viljoen so crap! Louis is going to fire me and I haven’t even had a chance to get What has changed about ‘The King- up on my feet.” It helps that Louis makers’ since we last saw it at the is the writer, because whenever I’ve Alexander Bar in 2014? battled with a difficult concept, he’s We had more time and resources this been there to help, but he has also time around and that has allowed us been very open to all of our feed- to explore the play more. The script is back. Now that I have this “muscular basically the same, but our goal was prose” in my head, I feel the fun can always to improve on the first pro- really begin, because it gives me an duction and let the play evolve. The opportunity to sink into the sub-text actors and I agreed to approach the and meaning of the lines. And there play as if it’s new and not rely on Brent Palmer, Rebecca Makin-Taylor and Pierre Malherbe in ‘The Kingmakers’ is so much there. I’m excited. moments that may have worked in - Picture by Jesse Kramer the first run. It’s a new stage, with Rebecca Makin-Taylor one new actor and it’s been over a year since we did it at The Alexan- We read about amoral individuals der Bar, so to fall back on old ideas to produce plays that aren’t ham- thetical. I’d like to think that I’d use far has been one of victory, but also and their impact on the world every for the sake of comfort is harmful to pered by the restrictions of wholly it for the greater good, but who can bitter compromise. It was a fascinat- day. What’s it like actually inhabit- the play and possibly boring for an independent theatre is quite thrilling. really say until it happens to them? ing and scary process looking into ing one, and how long does it usu- audience. Every play needs to be re- For me to crave any kind of political this character as well as inhabiting ally take you after a performance examined and you cannot rely solely THE PLaYERS power, I would have to be an entirely him, because he’s so real, he’s arche- to shake off Amy, the spin-doctor? on the success of a previous staging.