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  "description": "The setting, oh my, the setting.",
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  "textContent": "On the weekend, I watched the ballet _Dracula_ at Artscape, Cape Town's premier performing arts centre. It was beautiful and (to my untrained, unsophisticated eye) exquisitely executed. But I am a philistine and I found it rather boring in stretches. Which is not a bad thing! Boredom is good, actually. Boredom is an invitation for day-dreamy mind-wandering and an opportunity to practice patience. Heaven knows the world could do with more of that.\n\nAnyway, I'm glad I went, not least because Artscape is very sexy in a brutalist, deliciously dated kind of way and I hadn't been there in YEARS. How nice to be back. Those angular lines! That abundance of concrete!\n\n* * *\n\nOn the weekend, I also went to the Cape Town Print Fair (the inaugural one, and hopefully the first of many to come). Petite and sweet; a worthwhile experience. Again, though, the setting was what really popped for me: an old former bank branch in Cape Town's inner-city, equal parts grandeur and decay, seemingly on the verge of transformation (probably into something sanitised and boring). It felt like a gift to be experiencing it in this strange in-between state.\n\n81 St George's Mall, formerly a bank branch, hosted the Cape Town Print Fair recently.",
  "title": "the best part was the venue",
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