Richard Antrobus
Guest Author
Richard Antrobus holds an MA (Drama) from Rhodes University, South Africa, and a Diploma at the London School of Physical Theater. He was a was the recipient of a Standard Bank Ovation “Encore” Award 2011, a GIPCA fellowship (U.C.T) in 2012, featured in Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans 2013, selected for the Cirque du Soleil performer database (2014). For the past 6 years, Richard has been involved in making and directing family theater and theater for young audiences. In 2010 he wrote and performed his show “Stilted” to critical acclaim. In 2013 he also wrote and created a solo, “Being Norm”, which he has performed nationally. More recently, he was selected as candidate for Assitej’s Inspiring A Generation 2015/2016 programme where he has written a story and play, “The Cloud-Catcher” for children aged 4-11 yrs.
In 2016 he is an awardee of the Theaterformen Festival Grant, reporting for Textures from the Festival.
THIS AUTHOR WROTE
June 12, 2016
The spectator is king – or is it the intrusive service staff – or the hipster after all?
Richard Antrobus' thoughts on Thanapol Virulhakul's show "Hipster the King".
June 10, 2016
Loud music, energetic performers, water and flying tofu...
"kitch-pop-porn" is what festival grant awardee Richard Antrobus calls the performance Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker.
Read his report from the performance and his thoughts from the morning after the show.