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Keith Bain

  • Writer, Travel Journalist and Editor, Freelance
Cape Town
As seen in: MSN South Africa, The Independent (UK), Substack, Yahoo Style Canada, Sunday Times, TimesLIVE, AllAfrica, Frommer's, Attitude, Daily Maverick and
Covers:  Travel, culture, and anything interesting.
Doesn't Cover: Golf.
I'm not a travel writer, I'm a very naughty boy.

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Writer, travel journalist, editor.
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Everything, everywhere, all at once: the rise and rise of Wessel Pretorius

Everything, everywhere, all at once: the rise and rise of Wessel Pretorius

With multiple productions currently on the South African festival circuit, the multi-hyphenate theatre-maker …

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In a stage adaptation of the lauded novel, 'Kompoun' becomes a ritual of liberation

In a stage adaptation of the lauded novel, 'Kompoun' becomes a ritual of liberation

Family secrets, handed-down traumas, a search for truth, and storytelling as a ritual of healing: the play ex…

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Aida Reimagined: A galactic opera for the ages

Aida Reimagined: A galactic opera for the ages

Set in 3025, Cape Town Opera's Aida reinvents itself for a new generation but the voices and the music remain…

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Discovery Vitality

Discovery Vitality

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Planet of hope

Planet of hope

Exciting conservation steps taken within the next 10 years will determine what happens on Earth over the next…

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Creation of heaven on earth

Creation of heaven on earth

In one of the most southerly wine-producing areas in the world, Creation has within two decades emerged as Af…

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’Rocky Horror’: Don’t dream it, see it!

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By Keith Bain
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Craig Urbani’s bespoke Frank-N-Furter stilettos aren’t the only things that make the actor achieve such a towering presence on stage. Though he looms high above everyone, it’s his bravado performance that fills the stage, seduces everyone in the audience, too.
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June 16: remembering matters

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By Keith Bain
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We are in a precarious moment, a time when history is being flattened, ignored, denied, sugarcoated and rewritten. In some places, notably the US, the misdeeds of the past are being systematically erased as, for example, museum displays are altered and school syllabi modified to suit an administration hellbent on doctoring the nation’s memory of how it evolved to be what it is today. This flouting of reality isn’t limited to what’s being done politically to reengineer understandings of the past.
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Lest we forget: The play observing the Soweto Uprising through a fiercely human lens

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By Keith Bain
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It’s quite a tricky business, crafting theatre out of historic events. The task can be especially daunting when the event sits so close to the heart of a nation, occupies such a significant part of our collective consciousness.
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