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Chekhov to the max

‘NO, Helena, you cannot play my mother’s piano!’ Andrew Scott as one of the nine characters he performs in Vanya, screening via NT Live and Ster Kinekor in South Africa this week. Photograph courtesy hampshireattractions.co.uk WHAT IS IT about Chekhov that makes us relate so beautifully to his characters that we can be unbridled in our laughter, cringes and agony of recognition at their…

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Love, two beers and forever

"Love, two beers and forever", a review of 'La Rondine' screened by MetOpera for Cinema Nouveau, in South Africa until 11 June 2024.

THE bees’ knees: Magda (Angel Blue) on the right of the photograph, with her coterie of flappers, in Puccini’s La Rondine screening at Cinema Nouveau this week. Photograph courtesy interlochenpublicradio.org IF YOU SLIGHTLY close your eyes through all the frippery and flappery of the first act of Puccini’s La Rondine, you might believe yourself to have been magically transported into an Aubrey…