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This evening was the expected festival highlight. Don Quixote, performed by The South African Ballet Theatre Company. It was performed to live music, which was an added bonus.

I usually associate the Guy Butler Theatre with Grad and other Rhodes functions, and tend to forget that it is actually a theatre – Orchestra Pit and all. This evenings performance was superb, certainly the highlight it was supposed to be. The two ballerinas were superb and their male counterparts were also excellent. I did, however, feel that the Corps de Ballet could have been better – there were a few minor mistakes.

I did struggle to follow the story (from the programme blurb) in the actual performance, and the division of Scenes into Acts was different in the programme than on the evening. It was also significantly shorter than the programme indicates.

It was certainly an enjoyable performance, and the addition of an orchestra was an added pleasure not usually offered in South Africa. I know many of the people at the performance and I know a number of people going tomorrow.