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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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DAVID HELBOCK – Solo Piano

Playing compositions from the recent ACT CD release Playing John Williams & Into the Mystic

12 March 2020

Odeion

19:30


“Great!” - Jazz thing (DE)
“Accomplished, melodic playing” - The London Times (GB)
“David Helbock is a musician to watch. [...] An impeccable pianist with a clear, crisp touch.” - Jazzwise (GB)
“Best of all, of course, is the pianism of David Helbock. He has a magical and mysterious relationship with the keyboard… a masterclass in careful control of nuance and ineffable beauty.” - Jazz da Gama (Canada)

Two rewards and the audience prize at the world biggest jazz-piano-solo competition of the Jazz Festival Montreux (CH), a lot of enthusiastic international reviews for his CDs, and tours all over the globe with his own projects - David Helbock has, without a doubt, already had a great international musical career.

The new program Playing John Williams is also the title of his fourth solo piano album after the releases Emotions (2003), Time (2007) and Purple (2012).

Since 2016 David Helbock is an exclusive artist with the well-known German jazz label ACT-Music with whom he has released two albums already – Into the Mystic (2016) and Tour d’horizon (2018). Playing John Williams, his third CD with ACT now, is a solo piano album, which was released end of August 2019.

On this album, David Helbock deals with the music of John Williams, one of the most famous film music composers of all time, who wrote nearly all the music to Steven Spielberg´s Blockbusters.

David Helbock connects seamlessly to two of his projects in the past. On the CD Purple (Traumton - 2012) the pianist dealt with compositions of the famous pop artist Prince and already back then transferred and reduced Pop Culture into his unique and creative solo piano language. On the CD Into the Mystic (ACT - 2016), David Helbock, who was awarded the most important prize of Austria – the Outstanding Artist Award in 2011, dealt with mystical stories from different mythologies together with his trio with bass ukulele and drums.

Already back then the trio touched on the music of John Williams and played an arrangement of the film music of Star Wars - a film full of cross-connections between different mythological elements.

Film music from blockbusters like Indiana Jones, Harry Potter to Jaws or Schindler´s List are reduced to their essence and shine like new in unique, creative and jazzy solo piano arrangements.

David Helbock will also perform some of his own original compositions from his album Into the Mystic - a programme that dives into a spiritual world. David was inspired to write compositions by stories of different cultures and their mythology. In this way, some very driving pieces, along with the spirit of our time but also many quiet, mystical moments, emerged.

PROGRAMME

  • Hedwig’s Theme Version 1 (John Williams)
  • E.T. (John Williams)
  • Hymn to the Fallen (John Williams)
  • Jaws (John Williams)
  • Schindler’s List (John Williams)
  • Escapades (John Williams)
  • Hedwig’s Theme Ver. 2 (John Williams)
  • Eros (David Helbock)
  • AM (David Helbock)
  • Spiritual Monk (David Helbock)
  • The Soul (David Helbock)
  • Duel of the Fates - Star Wars Episode 1 (John Williams)

ADMISSION

R160 (adults)
*R80 (pensioner s and UFS staff members)
*R60 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket or online at http://online.computicket.com/web/

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above-mentioned discount.

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