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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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Georgi Anichenko (cello) & Anastasya Terenkova (piano)

Georgi Anichenko (cello) & Anastasya Terenkova (piano)
21 February 2011
Odeion
19:30

Georgi Anichenko, winner of the Fifth International String Competition (cello section), began playing the cello at the age of five. By the age of eight, he was performing with the Minsk State Music College Orchestra. In 1996, he received First Prize at the International Competition for the Young Musicians in Moscow and a year later he took the Virtuosity Prize at the Junior International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Georgi entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris at the age of fifteen. He won Second Prize at the Lions Club International Cello Competition in Nantes (France) and in 2004, he graduated (with honours) from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. In 2008 Georgi received the first prize at the Note et Bein International French Music Cello Competition. In 2009 he received the Second Witold Lutoslawski Cello Competition in Warsaw (Poland). He regularly gives solo recitals and takes part in chamber music concerts worldwide.

Anastasya Terenkova started taking piano lessons at the age of six at the famous Moscow Gnessin's Special Music School for Gifted Children. At the age of eleven she gave her first solo recital. In 2001 she entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. She has performed solo and chamber music throughout Russia, South Africa, France and the USA. She is a scholarship recipient of Tarazzi Foundation of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris (2003-5), Nadia et Lily Boulanger Foundation (2005), the ADAMI Foundation (2006-7) and the Meyer Foundation (2010). Anastasya is prize winner of various international piano competitions like the Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition (1995); Arcachon International Piano Competition (2002) and the Epinal International Piano Competition (2003), to name but a few.

Programme:
Fauré – Three Pieces
Poulenc – Sonata for cello and piano
Hanmer – Elegy: 24 Maraisburg
Prokofiev – Five Melodies, Op. 35a
Shostakovich – Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 40

Admission:
R120 (adults)
R80 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk, Waterfront Mall) and at the doors.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 - 401 2504)
 

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