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the men's salah room

(And other things spotted at the Fees.)

the men's salah room
Waiting for the comedian and satiric icon Pieter Dirk-Uys to come on stage for his monologue.

The deadline for the first assignment of my master's programme is looming towards me with the menacing impertinence of an iceberg on a transatlantic crossing. There have been halting attempts to make progress on it. But/and also hefty doses of procrastination. Most notably, attending a few performances at the latest edition of the annual Suidoosterfees, a dizzyingly rich performing arts festival.

Outside Arena Theatre at Artscape, a sprawling performing arts complex in the centre of Cape Town. It was one of numerous venues around Cape Town hosting Suidoosterfees performances.
Music for sale at the Cape Town City Hall on Thursday when the Cape Philharmonic was performing Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op.107.
Artscape underground.
Artscape (and perhaps Cape Town more generally) is a place that can literally accommodate both a prayer room for observant performers AND the staging of Alice in the Cape Flats, a drag show that tells the story of a gender-queer Alice journeying towards self-acceptance through a gritty Cape wonderland.
A backstage stairwell at the Artscape theatre complex.

This is the latest in a sequence of irregular Field Notes from a swimming pool library.

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