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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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Free State Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 3 March 2011
Odeion
19:30

Conductor: Arjan Tien
Soloist: Maria du Toit (clarinet)

Hendrik ANDRIESSEN Variations on a theme by Kuhnau
WEBER Clarinet Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Dutch conductor Arjan Tien has been working with South African orchestras since 1998 - the Kwa-Zulu Natal Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, th JPO and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. This is the first visit of the popular conductor to Bloemfontein. In 2000, at short notice, Arjan Tien was invited to conduct the Netherlands Youth Orchestra, and in 2001 he made a successful debut in the summer season of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. 2002 marked the beginning of a successful relationship with the Metropole Orchestra, recording with them the film music for the awarded Dutch film "Twin Sisters", which has also been released on CD. His second CD with the Metropole Orchestra, “Quand tu dors” with Wende Snijders, received an Edison Award, the oldest and most prestigious Dutch music award. His extensive symphonic and opera repertoire ranges from Baroque to Contemporary music.

He has conducted numerous television, radio, CD and DVD recordings and several world premieres, appearing in Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, Serbia Montenegro, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, where he worked with orchestras such as the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Ankara), L'Orchestre Symphonique de Bienne, the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (Durban), the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, the Metropole Orchestra, the Cape Town and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Residentie Orchestra (The Hague), the Arnhem Philharmonic, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.

Principal clarinettist of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in Cape Town, Maria du Toit is not only recognised as a distinguished orchestral musician, but indeed as one of South Africa’s finest solo instrumentalists. She has won numerous prizes in South African instrumental competitions, and in 2006 also the first prize of the international clarinet competition Jeunesses Musicales held in Bucharest, Romania.

Du Toit has appeared on various occasions as soloist with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Johannesburg Philharmonic and in 2002 with the FSSO. Active also as recitalist and chamber musician, her performance credits include the Stellenbosch International Chamber music Festival, Aardklop Arts Festival, Klein Karoo Klassiek, Darling Festival, Greyton Festival, Cape Town Concert Series, Stellenbosch Festival, International Classical Music Festival South Africa and UNISA Concert Series, among others.


Admission
R120 (adults) per concert
R80 (pensioners, students and learners) per concert

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Enquiries:
Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. 051 – 401 2342 (8:00 – 13:00)
www.fsso.org.za

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