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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 Monster Under My Bed

Director: Debeer Cloete

Script by:  Kevin Dyer
Venue: Rehearsal Room Theatre

Dates & times:

13 March at 10:00

14 March at 10:00

15 March at 10:00 & 15:00

16 March at 10:00

Tickets: R 20.00 per person & R 15.00 per person for block bookings of 10 or more

Block bookings of 10 or more individual can be done by Minette Grové (051) 401 2160

Bookings:   Computicket (Mimosa Mall en Checkers)

Is not easy to be ten years old boy:  especially if your mom is overly excited about the arrival of a Monday morning routine.  Or when your best friend steals your brand new binoculars, a parting gift from your father before he leaves to defend his country at war.  Or when you discover that a monster is living under your bed.   So Ben decides to switch places with the monster for a day resulting in his life, and his school, being turned upside down. 

“The Monster Under My Bed” was written by Kevin Dyer in 2008 and was first performed by the United Kingdom based Polka Theatre in 2009.  Dyer was awarded the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain’s New Writing Encouragement Award for this script in 2009.  The play has been described by the UK Guardian as “drawing with delicacy and wit upon the childhood fantasy of the monster under the bed . . . [and] proves why that endangered species, the original play for children, is worth saving.  This is a terrifically entertaining story about fathers and sons and the monster inside all of us”.  

“The Monster Under My Bed”, a second year module production aimed at 9 to 13 year olds, makes it’s South African premier at the University of the Free State’s Scaena Rehearsal Room under the direction of DeBeer Cloete on Wednesday the 13th of March at 10h00 and runs till Saturday the 16th.  Tickets are available through Computicket.  Remember to bring your imagination along for the ride!

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