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Karoo Moose, The UK

20-06-2009

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This is a lively and colourful visual production with a lot of African drum music and Zulu singing. It contains the usual, but very short, shabeen scene like Umoja and Foreplay.

The play is predominently in English but there are quite a lot of Zulu bits and it seems the story is sometimes a little difficult to follow just in English without an understanding of the Zulu!

In a remote and poor village a young girl, Thozama, struggles to survive finding it difficult to get any meat. Her father is a drunken layabout who gives his daughters virginity in return for his gambling debts.

She becomes pregnant and gives birth. A chance and terrifying encounter with an escaped moose change her life for ever. She kills the moose and has meat but then she is arrested by the police who find her cooking the Moose meat. The senior police man is WHITE ! ( Thats the part not the actor! ) He falls for her but at first cannot find a way to take her away from her poverty.

At the end, part of the African aspect of the play which does not seem well understood by UK reviewers, is that the girl is going to a "better place" with her "white man" ! Thats accompanied by the church song in Zulu "We're going to a better place".

This would be enjoyed by anyone who loves the drum music, African singing and dancing and appreciates the versatility of the actors who play a multiplicity of parts. A 6' man sucking his thumb when he is a child for example!

Tony Glazier

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Humaira, West End

16-11-2008

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I went this Saturday evening to try their give away Saturday buffet for £5.95 ! I was a little later than planned at 9.45 pm and the place was empty and no sign of any buffet. I was told that I was too late!

So we decided to stay for their al la carte anyway. The menu was pretty typical of many Indian restaurants.

The place is quite smart and seats about 44 which is larger than you would immagine from the outside. Only paper napkins though.

The food we ordered came quite quickly, rather too quickly to have been cooked fresh from the constituents. It tasted quite good so I suppose one cannot complain apart from the very soggy cauliflour.

The bill came to about £30 for two including 1/2 litre of house wine at £4.25. I quite like the idea of house wine in 1/2 and 1 litre quantities as it seems more appropriate for those who like to drink a little more than 1/2 a bottle.

Tony Glazier

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