Theatre review

Review about Tara Notcutt's Undermined

By Anelisiwe Dumezweni

Photo courtesty of Alexanderbar

Undermined is a long ago story that our  grandfathers’ know about. It was great.  Watching that show, there were only 3 actors but it was like there were 10!! I loved the actors singing there were different kinds of singing in the show. For example, they sung Zulu songs and we understood what they were singing about.  (Even though we do not understand Zulu). 

Photo courtesy of  West Cape News

They didn’t use real props, they just used torches and body parts.They made sounds with their mouths and feet.

When I was watching the show I felt like I was underground 

when I was not. I would like to go underground someday, but 

where do they get their oxygen from?

We liked watching Undermined and it was nice watching that 

show. At my days in Grahamstown I wish I was going to 

watch it again, it was very special to me. This is because to 

me it was reminding old people of old times when our grand 

fathers were working in the mines working. 

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There were many shows we have watched but you always 

like one thing and I loved Undermined. 6 of us liked

Undermined.

We performed Sipho, who is a very lazy boy and who always 

sleeps at all times of the day. The father was very unhappy. 

We also watched Jilted and Lake. Lake was a comedy and 

everyone laughed a lot. 

I wish I could be there again next year!