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THEATRE
The Lahnee’s Pleasure
Venue: Artscape, DF Malan St, Cape Town. Tel: (021)
421 7695.
Time: 8:15pm
Price: R50 - R90
Performances: 12 - 28 Aug 2010
Genre: Drama
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Ronnie Govender’s acclaimed play, opening
at the Artscape Arena, is a production staged to commemorate the 150th
anniversary of the arrival of Indian people in South Africa.
The Lahnee’s Pleasure, presented by Artscape in partnership
with the High Commission of India, Cape Town Office, is set against the
backdrop of 1950s KwaZulu-Natal. Mothie, a sugar worker, comes to the
“non-white” bar of the White House Hotel on the KZN North Coast to “drown
his sorrow”.
Mothie’s teenage daughter is having an illicit affair with
an unknown young man. When confronted, she runs away from home. A
distraught Mothie pours out his grief to the barman, Sunny, and the
Stranger, much to the annoyance of the Lahnee, who is in the “whites only”
bar next door. Trouble looms when a young man, Johnnie, a Chinese numbers
game runner, enters the scene.
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Govender, who wrote his first play in 1961 and went on to
write many other plays and novels, will direct The Lahnee’s Pleasure. He
is the recipient of numerous awards including the AA Vita Award for
lifelong contribution to South African Theatre; a medal from the English
Academy of South Africa for outstanding contribution to English
Literature, a Literary Life Time Achievement Award from the Department of
Arts and Culture and most recently South Africa’s third highest national
award, the Order of Ikamenga for “excellent contribution to democracy and
justice through the medium of the theatre”.
The cast features Lovie Ramasrai as Mothie, Ralph Lawson in
the role of the Lahnee, Rajendra Chetty, Royston Stoffels, Thiru Naidoo,
Christopher Naidoo and Nikhil Fataar. Designs are by Alfred Rietmann with
lighing design by Faheem Bardien.
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