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THEATRE
Die Van Aardes van Grootoor
Venue: Evita se Perron, Darling
Time: 7:00pm
Price: -
Performances: 23 & 30 Apr, 20 May 2010
Genre: Drama
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Pieter-Dirk Uys' play, Die Van Aardes van Grootoor, is being
staged at Evita se Perron in Darling in April and May 2010.
This legendary boeredrama, written mainly in Afrikaans by
Pieter-Dirk Uys, takes the form of a television soap opera of 780
episodes, of which five are presented in the show. The saga of the Van
Aarde family is a universally understood story of passion, murder, lust,
corruption, intrigue and is full of laughs.
In 1977, Dawie Malan, Chris Galloway and Bill Curry formed
the nucleus of an experimental theatre group called Fringe and Die Van
Aaardes van Grootoor was performed at the Baxter and thereafter, in 1978,
it opened at the Market Theatre where it ran for 18 months and was
directed by Malan.
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Most Afrikaans actors in Johannesburg took part in that
season at one stage or another, such as Magda Beukes, Antoinette Kellerman,
Chris Galloway, Bill Curry, Marthinus Basson, Nomsa Nene, Eon de Vos,
Elize Cawood, Lizz Meiring, Casper de Vries and Pieter-Dirk Uys himself,
who stood in for the leading lady one night when she was felled by flu!
The Perron cast features Jo-Anne Delport as Aia / Madame, Sary Vlotman as
Dolla, Ella du Plessis as Mimi/Brenda, Frits van Ryneveld as John
Firestone/Tertius; Anesia Darne as Ouma/Elana and Owen Britz as Fanie/Evert.
They are all from the Darling community and are part of the ongoing Perron
Drama Project, which has already presented a production of Uys's Karnaval,
the playlet Dink Net Aan Darling, darling for the 2009 Voorkamerfest and
the Wax-and-Wine cabaret evenings.
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