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THEATRE
Highway Crossing or A Tale of a Golden Fish
Venue: Intimate Theatre, Orange St, Cape Town. Tel: 083 292
6194.
Time: -
Price: R60 - R100
Performances: 6 (preview), 7, 8, 11, 13, 14 (@ 15h00),
17, 19, 21, 22 (@ 15h00), 25, 27 at 20h00 & 28 (@ 15h00) Aug 2010
Genre: Drama
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The age of access is bringing with it a new type of human
being. The young people of the new ‘protean’ generation are comfortable
conducting business and engaging in social activity in the worlds of
electronic commerce and cyberspace and they adapt easily to the many
simulated worlds that make up the cultural economy. Theirs is a world that
is more theatrical than ideological and more oriented towards a play ethos
than towards a work ethos.
The play is about the possibility of love. In Highway
Crossing or A tale of a Golden Fish the feelings of a young couple are
tested by the dangerous lure of an unimaginable amount of money.
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Lost in the woods on a stormy night, Laura and Roland seek
refuge in a farmhouse where their host Oswald offers Roland one billion
dollars for his fiancée. The money is real and Oswald claims it is a
miracle gift given him by a golden fish in the lake. Already a huge hit in
many other countries this remarkable Estonian play is a dark comedy about
human nature and the choices we make at a moments notice.
It is not important whether the world of Tatte’s characters
is located in Tallinin, New York or Berlin, because when it comes to
dreams and love we are more similar than the geographical distances may at
first have us believe.
In an epoch when the bulk of new drama offers us images of
harsh and estranged, dirt-and-blood-coloured lives, where close
relationships are destined to failure, Tatte’s writing gives us a chance
to live in a world where values exist.
On first appearance Tatte’s plays seem to be very simple,
but this simplicity is deceptive. The fluent and easily spoken dialogue
tricks the reader or the viewer into a net of multi-level verbal
misunderstandings and mental air pockets, from which one doesn’t try to
escape. It’s good to be trapped in that net. It’s a game.
Highway Crossing or a Tale of a Golden Fish
plays in the Intimate Theatre in repertory with Endgame from 3 to 29
August 2010.
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