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THEATRE
F.A.K. Songs and other Struggle Anthems
Venue: The Fugard Theatre, Caledon St, District 6.
Tel: (021) 461 4554.
Time: Tue - Fri @ 8:00pm; Sat @ 5:00pm & 8:00pm
Price: R90, R100, R120
Performances: 31 Aug - 18 Sep 2010
Genre: Comedy
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Bambi Kellerman, Evita Bezuidenhout’s little sister presents
her unique cabaret show for a limited season at the Fugard.
This is what the cabaret is about: Bambi's extraordinary
story of survival is told in song and sketch, her background echoed in
familiar tunes, her inspirations gently mocked through canny
impersonation. With Pieter-Dirk Uys as Bambi and with music arranged by
Godfrey Johnson and performed by Bambi's Bokkie Band, F.A.K. Songs and
Other Struggle Anthems is performed in three languages. The band, led by
Johnson on piano, consists of Heather Roth on flute and sax, Rayelle
Goodman on violin, Mac McKenzie on guitar and Hilton Schilder on
percussion.
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Bambi's story is told in English, while the songs also
include some in German and some in Afrikaans. This cabaret is not for the
faint-hearted. It unites the acrid stench of the old Weimar Republic of
the 1930s and the sexy rot of Hamburg's Reperbahn with the familiar aromas
associated with 'ons eie' Voortrekker-camps and braaivleis-orgies.
Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout will not be on stage with Bambi.
The two sisters are sworn enemies and have never been seen in the same
place at the same time. And for good reason. Whereas Evita is proper in
all aspects, Bambi is not. The former stripper/sex worker now runs her
internationally-known wine cellar in Paarl - with 'special offers' on
weekends, plus condoms.
With her Nazi husband's ashes in an urn on the piano, Bambi
sings about love and confides about life. Not for the squeamish or the
proper, this cabaret features songs by Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim, as
well as a selection of familiar Afrikaans liedjies from the legendary
F.A.K. Sangbundel, a songbook of the federation of Afrikaans
Cultural organisations, reinvented by Bambi to suit the mood of 2010.
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