Review of Cruise – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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PATSY CLINE and ginger wine… Daniel Geddes embodies one of the effervescent stereotypes that helps Cruise‘s central character find his feet. Photograph by Odette Putzier.

TAKE AN HISTORICAL site of worship that shrieks 1980s community in South Africa. Rattle its proverbial bones with the shadows and demons of what was profoundly taboo to that sense of community, then. Toss in some harsh lights, a dash of stage smoke and doef-doef music to make your eyeballs jitter in your skull, and the stage is set for a very unusual production. Jack Holden’s Cruise is not, however, only the sum of its contextual parts. This utterly beautiful text fulminating with rhythm and nuance is performed to perfection by Daniel Geddes, and is onstage until 11 December.

Cruise, as the name indicates, is a tale woven around and between the interstices of the gay community. Structured with a narrative within several narratives, as a monologue, it stretches the performer to capacity, causing him…

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