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THEATRE
London Road
Venue: Kalk Bay Theatre, 52 Main Rd, Kalk Bay. Tel: 073
220 5430
Time: Wed - Sat @ 8:30pm
Price: R100
Performances: 11 Mar - 10 Apr 2010
Genre: Drama
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London Road, a tender, funny and
heartbreaking story about two women from diverse backgrounds, will
premiere at the Kalk Bay Theatre on 11 March.
The script won the Audience Choice
award at the PANSA new South African Playwriting competition in 2007 and
an award-winning, all-South African, stellar creative team will bring the
full production to life.
“London Road is a simple and intimate
reflection on growing old, loneliness, fragmented families and the healing
power of a friendship,” says director Lara Bye. “It is a glimpse into the
private lives of two very different women living in a block of flats in
London Road in Sea Point.”
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On the surface, Stella and Rosa Kaplowitz have nothing in
common. Stella is a young Nigerian woman living in a
damp, converted storage room. Long distant family, dodgy gangsters and a
sense of survival makes her very mistrusting of the gestures of strangers.
Rosa is an elderly Jewish widow living in a flat on the fifth floor. Her
children and grandchildren live in Australia and Israel so she keeps
herself occupied by becoming very involved in the business of her
neighbourhood. She is determined to fight against age and illness, but her
body and memory start to fail her - how can she remember every detail of a
long past love affair, but accidentally shop lift a tin of Milo from the
Pick ‘n Pay?
After an act of violence, these two women find themselves
stranded together like the flotsam and jetsam washed up on the beach
front. Themes unite them – absent men, scattered families, broken
relationships, a dark sense of humour and survival.
“Stella and Rosa are performed with grace
and humour by two of Cape Town’s leading young actresses - Robyn Scott and
Ntombi Makhutshi,” says Bye. “Robyn Scott recently mesmerised audiences in
Elizabeth-Almost By Chance A Woman, which earned her a Fleur Du Cap
nomination for Best Actress. She is a renowned and award-winning character
actress and has lovingly created Rosa.
“Up-and-coming actress Ntombi Makhutshi
was most recently seen in Iago’s Last Dance and Die Storie Van Die
Vertaalde Mense. She is breathtaking in her versatility
and depth.”
With London Road Bye brings her trademark
attention to detail, intelligent sophistication, unique theatre style and
staging to the production. Highly choreographed, passionate performances,
a mixture of deep tragedy and dark comedy, a yearning for connection,
tenderness and passion are themes which run through her work.
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