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Jollie Patrollie
2018-05-16

Jollie PatrollieNAME OF PRODUCTION: JOLLIE PATROLLIE

SCRIPT BY: NICO LUWES

DIRECTED BY: NICO LUWES

VENUE: WYNAND MOUTON THEATRE, UFS-MAIN CAMPUS

LANGUAGE: AFKRIAANS

GENRE: COMEDY

Photo by Esté Strydom.
Juani Smith
Janco Pieterse
Claudia Herbst
Barend Kriel
Esmarie Booysen

Date and times:

  • 16 May @ 19:30
  • 17 May @ 19:30
  • 18 May @ 19:30

TICKETS:

  • R 40.00 PER PERSON
  • R 30.00 FOR STUDENTS, SCHOLARS,
  • R 25.00 FOR PENSIONERS

BOOKINGS: COMPUTICKET (0861 915 8000)

Nico Luwes new Afrikaans farce, Jollie Patrollie, was specially written for the talented, young third year drama students in 2018. Farce provides exceptional intellectual and physical challenges and artistic skills for actors. A typical farce depends on surprises and unexpected twists in the plot so to tell too much about the story beforehand, might give the fun away. In this crazy farce, a nerdy young bank official tries to convince his grumpy boss, Bidou von Brakel, and his prim and proper wife, Barabarossa, that he is a happily married man and the ideal husband. If he can convince them of his high morals, he might be promoted at work. His only problem is that he is not married and hired a young girl to play his so-called wife named, Jollie, for the evening. Due to various comical misunderstandings, the situation turns into a chaotic nightmare for the goodhearted Stephanus. One wonders if the grumpy old boss, Bidou, is as morally innocent as he pretends. Bidou’s wife, Barbarossa sits squarely on her poor husband’s head and does not trust Stephanus and his wife, Jollie, at all. Might Stephanus be a very kinky man with strange habits or not? She finds his wife, Jollie, is even more bizarre. Does she just play dumb or are the little pigs in her head just totally running in circles?

As in all the well-known previous farces by Luwes the comedy lies in the complex plot filled with comical characters caught up strange situations. The plot move at break-neck speed from one crisis to the other and the poor Stephanus must desperately put out fires to get out of trouble. In his typical farce style, double meanings in dialogue is driven further in that one of the characters does not understand one word of Afrikaans! Or do the characters just not have a clue about the situation they are caught in? The actors and the audience must keep their wits together to figure out who knows what, what the real situation and intentions of the characters are. The final test for a farce text and the production on stage depends on whether the audience can be convinced that this could have happened in real life. So beware! Who knows? Maybe you might one day find yourself in a similar situation! This hilarious farce can be enjoyed by the whole family and promises a good old belly laugh for all.

Performances in the Wynand Mouton Theatre take place at 7:30 on 16, 17 and 18 May. Booking at Computicket.


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The hate crime project

Description: The Hate Crime Project Tags: The Hate Crime ProjectDirected by: Dion van Niekerk and DeBeer Cloete

Script by: A brand new workshopped production

Venue: Scaena Theatre

Genre: Drama

Language: Afrikaans, English and Sesotho

 

Dates and times:

16 November 2017 at 19H30

17 November 2017 at 19H30

18 November 2017 at 19H30

 

Tickets:    R 40.00 per person

R 30.00 for students, scholars,

R 25.00 for pensioners

 

Bookings:  Computicket

 

The Hate Crime Project

 

Nearly two decades after the shocking murder of Mathew Shepard in the small town of Laramie, Wyoming in the United States, reports of hate crimes, discrimination and homophobic inspired violence still populate local and international newspapers.  In South Africa, hate crimes have become synonymous with attacks of xenophobia, reports of corrective rape and violence aimed at minorities that cannot be defended as politically or socio-culturally justified. 

 

Inspired by the groundbreaking theatre production The Laramie Project by the acclaimed playwright Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project, third year drama students at the University of the Free State workshopped a brand new production which explores hate crimes in South Africa through a fictitious case of corrective rape that occurred in the small Free State town of Heilbron.  In the production, actors portray various roles which include the roles of victims, protesters, perpetrators, parents and the public.  The conclusion:  we are all affected by hate crimes, no matter which race, gender, age, sexual orientation, nationality or level of formal education. 

 

The Hate Crime Project (in Afrikaans, English and Sesotho) is the final production of this group of graduating undergraduate students and is directed by Dion van Niekerk en DeBeer Cloete.  It debuts on the 16th of November and run until the 18th November at the Scaena Theatre on the UFS campus.  Doors close at 19:30.  Tickets are available through Computicket.     

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