LEISURE
T H E AT R E
WHERE RHYTHM SPEAKS EVERY LANGUAGE International smash hit Stomp bashes and crashes its way back to SA.
F
rom London and Paris
critical acclaim and sold-out
to Las Vegas and New
performances, and is back later
York, Stomp makes music
this year, opening at Montecasino’s
with brooms, matchboxes,
Teatro on 13 August for a four-
sound as they beat truck inner
hands and feet, poles, chairs,
week season, and then moving to
tubes, rubber hosing, Zippo
sinks, basketballs, newspapers
Cape Town’s Artscape from 11 to
lighters, plastic bags, metal
and more, climaxing with the
22 September 2019.
dustbins, bin lids, tubs, water butts
exhilarating trademark bins
Stomp is a unique combination
and, yes, even the kitchen sink!
routine, where metal trashcans
of percussion, dance and physical
And then there are the brooms
become drums and dustbin lids
comedy, finding beauty and music
that are turned into soft shoe
become combat shields.
in the mundane. Eight brilliantly
partners. Stomp turns brooms into
synchronised performers take the
instruments and handclapping into
audience on a journey through
a conversation; the junk and clutter
The wildly entertaining show toured South Africa in 2010 to
of urban life becomes the source of infectious rhythm and wonder. Created in Brighton, UK, in the summer of 1991, Stomp was the result of a 10-year collaboration between its creators, Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas. The popularity of Stomp continually grew, resulting in the cast performing live at the 1996 Academy Awards (the Oscars) to an estimated audience of almost a billion people worldwide, and at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. This inventive and invigorating stage show is guaranteed to make your heart pound as the infectious rhythms, dance, music and theatrical performance blend together in one electrifying universal language. • Tickets are available from Computicket. WWW.SILVERDIGEST.CO.ZA
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