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		<title>Interview with Nik Rabinowitz</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A shorter version of this interview ran in the Mail &#038; Guardian on 9 December 2011. 
Interview with Nik Rabinowitz
Brent Meersman
Brent Meersman: Has Jewish comedy affected you?
Nik Rabinowitz: My Godfather was a comedian and he was also a Jewish. He was actually more of an actor, but he was a big joke teller and collector [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Number</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with director Jonathan Munby and actors Timothy West and Samuel West for Caryl Churchill&#8217;s A Number at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. This article originally ran in the Mail &#038; Guardian of 7 October 2011. 
A Number at the Fugard Theatre
Brent Meersman talks to director Jonathan Munby and actors Timothy and Samuel West. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winnie the Opera</title>
		<link>http://realreview.co.za/2011/06/28/winnie-the-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with Brent Meersman for the BBC World Service on Winnie the Opera
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		<title>Broken Glass by Arthur Miller at the Fugard Theatre</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a sense life paralyzes all of us. Our incessant exposure to the horrors filling television and internet screens leaves us feeling hopeless in the face of gratuitous cruelty and galling injustice on a global scale.
Broken Glass (1994), written by Arthur Miller when he was 78, is set in Brooklyn in November 1938. News of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Lara Foot, CEO of the Baxter</title>
		<link>http://realreview.co.za/2011/04/17/interview-with-lara-foot-ceo-of-the-baxter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lara Foot, the new CEO of the Baxter, one year into the job, speaks her mind, including her views on what is needed in funding in the arts in South Africa
Inevitably, a fair bit of anxiety and some excitement attend the change of guard at any major institution. The appointment of Lara Foot as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A real-life drama at the Fugard</title>
		<link>http://realreview.co.za/2010/12/17/a-real-life-drama-at-the-fugard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Abraham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mannie Manim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dornford-May]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Published in the Mail &#038; Guardian, December 17.
It has been a fraught year for theatre in Cape Town. Late in November, the Fugard Theatre, which opened in February this year, expelled its resident repertory company, Isango Portobello, following what Eric Abraham, the theatre&#8217;s British benefactor, called &#8220;the discovery of certain financial irregularities&#8221;, formally suspending creative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Train Driver and Rustlers</title>
		<link>http://realreview.co.za/2010/09/06/the-train-driver-and-rustlers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diane Wilson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew I had seen a play about it before. I vividly recall the final image – a giant light of a train bearing directly down on us in the audience. Since Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver was staged earlier this year, it has been driving me absolutely nuts for months now. I asked various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Godot in Khayelitsha</title>
		<link>http://realreview.co.za/2010/08/13/waiting-for-godot-in-khayelitsha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brendan O'Hea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian McKellen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Mathias]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One look at the sprawling shacks literally across the road from the O.R. Tambo Sports Centre in Khayelitsha and the seemingly endless agony of waiting for a better life is quite apparent. At a once-off performance here on a cold Monday evening (August 2), Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece and a watershed play in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Sir Ian McKellen</title>
		<link>http://realreview.co.za/2010/08/09/interview-with-sir-ian-mckellen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with Sir Ian McKellen (published in the Mail &#038; Guardian, August 2010)
Brent Meersman
Sir Ian McKellen is in Cape Town to perform in Samuel Beckett’s watershed tragicomedy, Waiting for Godot, at the Fugard Theatre. As we walk down the atmospherically lit corridor with its exposed brick and warm wooden floors, McKellen is touching the walls, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Arts Festival 2010 Grahamstown</title>
		<link>http://realreview.co.za/2010/06/18/national-arts-festival-2010-grahamstown/</link>
		<comments>http://realreview.co.za/2010/06/18/national-arts-festival-2010-grahamstown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in the Mail &#038; Guardian, June 18, 2010
The nation was in raptures after the successful opening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Sport is not alone in riding high on this optimism. The annual National Arts Festival (NAF) envisioned this global tournament as an opportunity for a bumper year. Giving football fans the benefit [...]]]></description>
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