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THEATRE
I, Claudia
Venue: Kalk Bay Theatre, Main Rd, Kalk Bay. Tel: 073
220 5430
Time: Wed - Sat @ 8:30pm
Price: R100
Performances: 20 Oct - 13 Nov 2010
Genre: Comedy/ Drama
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Actress Susan Danford brings her Fleur du Cap-nominated
performance in I, Claudia to Cape Town and audiences will be able to catch
Lara Bye’s acclaimed production of Kristen Thomson’s at the Kalk Bay
Theatre.
I, Claudia combines humour and pathos to
map the raw but beautiful interior world of an irrepressibly funny, misfit
adolescent, through four wonderfully exaggerated comic characters. Danford
uses expressive masks to masterfully whisk her way through the quirky
pre-teen, her grandfather, her father’s new girlfriend and the immigrant
school caretaker.
Claudia is reeling from the after-affects
of her parents’ divorce, dealing with school assignments and coping with
the emotional transition of puberty, and takes refuge in the school
caretaker’s room. Her journey presents moments of humour and magic as well
as painful honesty.
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The production premiered at the National
Arts Festival two years ago and has since toured extensively to schools,
festivals and theatres nationwide, receiving rave reviews such as
“…spellbinding…..a one-woman tour de force.” (Sunday Independent). Most
recently, the show was invited to Gaborone, Botswana, where it played to
sold-out houses. Danford was nominated for a Fleur du Cap award for Best
Performance in a One Person Show, while Melani-Rene Louwrens was nominated
for Best Props Design.
Directed by Lara Bye, masks are by Melani-Rene
Louwrens; props and costumes by Jesse Kramer; sound design by James Webb
and lighting design is by Matthew Lewis.
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