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The Last Five Years

The Last Five Years

THE LAST FIVE YEARS
is a multi award winning, emotionally powerful and intimate one-act musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.

Written by Tony Award winning composer Jason Robert Brown, the show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy (played by Talia Kodesh), a vivacious struggling actress, telling her story backwards while Jamie (played by Niall Griffin), a hotshot up-and-coming novelist, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show. The show has been produced at almost every major regional theatre in the US, and has been seen in Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Italy, Canada, Spain, the UK, and now South Africa.

THE LAST FIVE YEARS (South Africa) is directed by Gina Shmukler, star of Mama Mia and Chess, and is joined by the Musical Theatre industries leading Musical Director, Charl-Johan Lingenfelder. The show stars two of the countries brightest leading actors: Talia Kodesh as Cathy and Niall Griffin as Jamie. With music that elevates the soul to soar, superb scenery and costumes, exquisite lighting and the best of the South African Musical Theatre industry, this show is sure to take your breath away! Do not delay! This multi award winning musical masterpiece has a limited season in Johannesburg and tickets are selling fast!


Show Reviews

“A Musical Masterpiece” – THE CHICAGO SUN

“Hysterical and Heartbreaking” – THE TRIBUNE

“Desperately Beautiful” – THE NEW YORK TIMES


Show Cast

Niall Griffin
Talia Kodesh

Directed By Gina Shmukler
Musical Director: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder

Colour Me In

Colour Me In

Catalina Theatre, Wilson’s Wharf: 22 March-1 April, 2012.

TheatreGroup Heart proudly presents a new comedy/drama production by Grant Jacobs about a couple caught up in a colourful catastrophe:  Colour Me In explores relationship dynamics, interracial relationships and what actually lies beneath the surface of these seemingly comic arguments that frequently come up in between couples in this day and age.

Starring two of Durban’s freshest talents, Caitlin Kilburn who has just arrived back from a stint in Seoul, where she played Sheila in Day in the Death of Joe Egg but Durban audience’s may remember her most from her unforgettable performance as Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. The show also stars Standard Bank Ovation Award winner Grant Jacobs, best known for his performances in the Bob and Rob shows and his award winning show PaperBoy! which has travelled South Africa and beyond.

Colour Me In will be directed by Dutch director Denise Lukkenaer (Amsterdam), who was seen earlier this year at the Musho! Festival with lighting by Nosipho Bophela.


Colour Me In will run at the Catalina Theatre running from 22 March-1 April. Shows start at 7:30pm Thursdays-Saturday and 5:00pm Sunday. Ticket prices are R70 (R55 discount for students or pensioners).

Antigone

Jean Anouilh’s 
Antigone
Courtyard, DUT: 21 – 26 March
Lloyd O' Connor directs Jean Anouilh’s Antigone – a robust Greek-inspired drama which explores the role of destiny in people’s lives – for the Courtyard theatre at DUT to be staged from 21 – 26 March.

Jean Anouilh’s play Antigone is a tragedy inspired by Greek mythology and the play of the same name by Sophocles from the fifth century BC.

Written in 1942, when Nazi forces occupied France, the story revolves around the conflict between the idealist Antigone and her rigid uncle, Creon, over the proper burial of Antigone’s brother, Polynices. The play was also interpreted to represent the struggle of the French Resistance movement against the forces of the Vichy government during the height of Nazi occupation.

Jean Anouilh’s Antigone is an adaptation of Sophocles’ tragic play of the same title.
Anouilh (1910–1987) was born in Bordeaux to a tailor father and a violinist mother. By the 1950s, Anouilh was Europe's most popular playwright. Throughout his career, Anouilh's drama featured biting political critique which faded later in life when his work became distinguished by their politically conservative nature and nostalgic tone. He wrote at a time when absurdist playwrights Ionesco and Beckett were changing the face of contemporary theatre.

Antigone
Date: Wednesday 21 – Monday 26 March, 2012
Venue: Courtyard Theatre
Time: 19h00
Director: Lloyd O’Connor
Entrance Fee: R20
For more info: Lebohang Sibisi (031) 373 2194

KWV Indian Comedy Tour

KWV Indian Comedy Tour
8 – 11 March: Sibaya Casino
14 March: Civic Centre - Newcastle
15 March: Port Shepstone Civic Centre
16 March: Imbizo Centre – Richards Bay / Empangeni
18 March: Golden Horse Casino – Pietermaritzburg
A breath-taking line up of both international and local stand up and sketch-based comedians will be touring KZN during the month of March for the KWV Indian Comedy Tour.
 
The line-up features Umit Bali from Sydney Australia who provides a fast paced life-as-an-immigrant humour and is a very appealing Australian comedian; Anil Desai from London is a fan of pop culture and thus created his own comedy sketch group The Giant Pineapple Boys and has performed in London and Edinburgh Festivals.
 
The international acts will be complemented by SA finest – Rabin Harduth hails from Johannesburg – prolific and busy, a regular on the Jo’burg comedy circuit - Rabin plays 100 acts a year in and around Johannesburg. His comedy reflects an intelligent comedian that keeps the audience captivated with his easy and witty brand of humour. Much loved award winning Durban theatre personality Shika Budhoo; from Chatsworth, Maeshni Naicker is recognized for her uncanny ability to cast spells of unbridled laughter on virtually any audience and is well known to SA movie and radio audiences.  Also from Chatsworth is Koge Naidoo AKA Amsugi is famous for roles in community plays and her lead role in the South African movie Broken Promises

Adult only audiences! For more info visit www.indiancomedy.co.za.

Booking for Sibaya;
Through Computicket
Bookings for Richard’s Bay / Empangeni
Ticket Outlet - 083-6526309  / 035-7926180
Bookings for Port Shepstone
Ticket outlet – Jay’s Studio - 039 682 1525
Bookings for Newcastle
Ticket Outlet - 034 312 9930
Bookings for PMB – Golden Horse Casino
Casino Guest relationship – 033 3958136

Adapt or Fly

Pieter-Dirk Uys presents


Adapt or Fly


Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre: Tues 6 – Sun 18 March

Master satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys will be doing a world tour of South Africa with his latest show, Adapt or Fly, which comes to the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on UKZN campus from 6 – 18 March.

 

Adapt or Fly! Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout, Kidi Amin, Pik Botha, Nowell Fine, Mrs Petersen, the old Krokodil, Madiba and the dancing DA are coming to the rescue! In a time of depression, recession, fear and anger, what is better and more healing than a good laugh at the expense of those who depress, recess, frighten and annoy us?

 

Pieter-Dirk Uys celebrates 2012 as a year of radical change in South Africa through political paralysis. From the hundred million rand ANC centenary celebration in January, right up that long winding road to end up again in Mangaung for the ANC December Congress, the ruling party will be too busy fighting each other for personal wealth and political power to bother themselves about running a country up or down.

 

His new show will be a personal political comedy-trek along a familiar long tiptoe to freedom, through the minefields of racism and sexism that have always made up the tarmac of our political freeway. Laughter at fear has always been Uys's trademark, from the darkness of his first one-man show in 1982 Adapt or Dye, to the dazzling kaleidoscope of rainbow colours in his new 2012 show Adapt or Fly.

 

The performance on March 8 is a fund raiser for Rotary Durban North – tickets through

Computicket.

 

The WORLD TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA:

4, 5, 6 January: Barnyard Plettenberg Bay

7 January: Barnyard Mossel Bay

12, 13 January: Boardwalk Port Elizabeth

15, 16, 17 February: Rhodes Theatre Grahamstown

6 – 18 March: Sneddon Theatre Durban

3 – 29 April: The Fringe @ Joburg Theatre

14 May to 9 June: Baxter Studio Cape Town

27 June to 7 July: Grahamstown National Arts Festival

If you're a Pieter Dirk-Uys fan you'll enjoy watching this - Darling: The Pieter Dirk Uys Story

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