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THEATRE
Pictures of You
Venue: Baxter Studio, Main Rd, Rondebosch. Tel: (021) 680 3989
Time: Mon - Sat @ 8:15pm
Price: R75 (Tue - Thu) R95 (Fri - Sat)
Performances: 1 - 13 Feb 2010
Genre: Comedy
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At first sight, Frank and Janet’s marriage is the picture of
perfection – neat, ordered, and respectable. But underneath lies a deeper
truth – one of buried secrets and repressed desires that begin leaking out
when Frank starts to dream.
Using a sumptuous blend of character masks, magic realism,
arresting imagery, puppetry and an imaginative soundscape, Pictures of You
weaves together a surreal world across the thin line between dreaming and
reality, between sanity and insanity. It is a love story that explores the
pleasure, pain, mistakes and forgiveness that govern our responses to
being in love.
“Pictures of You was the highest grossing theatre show on
the fringe at the 2009 National Arts Festival and we are thrilled to be
returning to the Baxter,” says director Rob Murray.
“We also played to sold-out houses at Grahamstown and have
received an awesome response wherever we perform this production. We are
also proud to be associated with Janni Younge, winner of the 2010 Standard
Bank Young Artist award for theatre, and Pictures of You is a truly unique
show created by an award-winning team of collaborators.”
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Presented by a conspiracy of clowns, in association with
from the hip: khulumakahle (FTH:K), the production is devised and
directed by Rob Murray (QUACK!; ‘Nuff Sed; Gaëtan Schmid’s The Dog’s
Bollocks; Bird’s Eye View), performed by Liezl de Kock (QUACK!; GUMBO;
‘Nuff Sed) and Dorian Burstein (Wet Feet; Love Amongst the Bones; Cowboy
Mouth) with visual design by winner of the 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist
award for theatre and director of OUT THE BOX Festival, Janni Younge and
sound design by James Webb, winner of the 2008 ABSA
L'atelier prize.
a conspiracy of clowns is a collective of award-winning
visual theatre makers, made up of a flexible number of artists
nationwide. The initiative is geared towards promoting a collaborative
approach to creating original theatre work with a particular focus on
clowning, visual theatre, puppetry and contemporary devised performance.
FTH:K is a multi-award-winning visual theatre and education
company that aims to revolutionise the South African Theatre industry
through the development of Deaf and hearing performer-creators.
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