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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 Creation

Symphony Choir of Johannesburg  and the Free State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Fokkens

Soloists:          Magdalene Minnaar (soprano)

         Kgaugelo Mpyane (tenor)

         Aubrey Lodewyk (baritone)

Date:                Sunday 7 September 2014

Venue:             NG Kerk Heuwelsig

Time:               15:00

 

Haydn’s masterpiece, The Creation will be performed at the NG Kerk Heuwelsig on Sunday 7 September by the Symphony Choir of Johannesburg and the Free State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Fokkens. The soloists are Magadalene Minnaar (soprano), Kgaugelo Mpyane (tenor) and Aubrey Lodewyk (baritone).

Magdalene Minnaar has entertained audiences across the globe with her versatile voice and enigmatic stage presence, evident in her acclaimed performances of the female lead in the international touring production Show Boat and The Phantom of the Opera. Since completing her two years at the Cape Town Opera Studio, highlights include performing as soloist at the opening of the Cape Town Stadium with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Cock and the 20Tenors, as well as the annual RMB Starlight Classics, Last Night at the Proms, Sean Bovim’s spectacular tribute show Queen at the Ballet and Deon Opperman’s multi-media oratorio Die Skepping.

Kgaugelo Mpyane is a final year BMus student at the Odeion School of Music at the University of the Free State majoring in both viola performance and voice. He won the Musicon Solo singing competition in 2010 and 2011 and the UNISA festival, this time in the advanced category, where he won both the classical and non-classical categories, and won the overall prize for the festival. Since 2010 Kgaugelo has sung as a soloist with various leading choirs in South Africa. In 2011 he sang in Handel’s Messiah with Bel Canto Voices. In 2012 he sang as a soloist in Nabucco and Wagner’s Lohengrin as Lohengrin  with The Voices of the Nation Choir (Pretoria).

Aubrey Lodewyk was a huge favourite with the audience at the Rodgers & Hammerstein tribute concert at the Vryfees in July. In 2011 he performed the role of Mandela in the world premiere of Mandela Trilogy and again in its European debut in Cardiff. Aubrey made his debut as Silvio in I Pagliacci at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, sang the role of William in Jan Meyerowitz opera Il Mulatto in Marseille for the Festival Musique Interdites and was a soloist at the Mandela Day celebration concert in Paris. In 2014 Aubrey performed the role of Guglielmo in Cosi fan Tutte and made his debut in Munich in the title role in Mandela Trilogy (June 2014).

The Symphony Choir of Johannesburg was established in 1947 by Edgar Cree as the SABC Choral Society.  Since 1980, the choir has grown and evolved under the leadership of Richard Cock, and has become the leading choir of its type in South Africa.  Its concerts are regularly broadcast nationwide on SAFM.  The choir has gone from strength to strength under the creative and disciplined directorship of Richard Cock.  Their repertoire is varied and wide: they have sung most of the major well-known oratorios, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation and Nelson Mass, Vivaldi’s Gloria and the Requiems of Brahms, Mozart, Verdi, Fauré and Duruflé – to name a few. 

Admission:

R120 (adults)

R80 (pensioners)

R50 (students/learners/group bookings of 10+)

 

Tickets are available from Computicket outlets or book online at www.computicket.com

 

Enquiries:

Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. (051) 401-2342 (office hours)

www.fsso.org.za

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