Herman Lategan is a freelance journalist, previously associated with House and Leisure, Cape Style, Fine Music Radio and e.tv. In his day he was a dainty flâneur, but these days he prefers dark bars filled with fringe characters, harlequins and outcasts.
CONTRARIAN DRAMATIST
Louis Viljoen, theatre’s dark rock star
Louis Viljoen's pieces have been compared with the wounded words in Steven Berkoff's and Quentin Tarantino's dialogues. At 40 years old, he has completed 23 dramas and is working on two new plays, writes HERMAN LATEGAN.
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THE man who was indirectly responsible (thank you) for my stopping to write theatre reviews is on his way from Woodstock, where he lives, to Tuine, where we are to meet. I had written about his piece The Demon Bride at the Woordfees. It was not flattering.
I decided a little later to go see it again at the Fugard Theatre and realised that my criticism of the play was misplaced. It made me think about critics and criticism in general and how unscrupulously subjective one can be about other people's work.
Your moods are fickle, which can adversely affect the tone of the review – which then just sounds like bad-mouthing. Also, performances on stage are better on certain nights than on others...
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JournalistHerman Lategan is a freelance journalist, previously associated with House and Leisure, Cape Style, Fine Music Radio and e.tv. In his day he was a dainty flâneur, but these days he prefers dark bars filled with fringe characters, harlequins and outcasts.