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THEATRE
The
Insatiables
Venue: Theatre on the Bay, Link St, Camps Bay. Tel: (021) 438
3300
Time: Tue - Fri @ 8:00pm, Sat @ 5:00pm & 8:00pm
Price: R90 - R125
Performances: 13 May - 6 Jun 2009
Genre: Comedy
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Tim Plewman and Jonathan Rands have collaborated for the
first time on a new South African production, “The Insatiables”,
co-authored and starring the two veteran performers. The play premiered at
the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and went on to win the “Best
Comedy Play” award at the 2008 South African comedy awards.
Drawing on their vast experience in the theatre, Plewman and
Rands have crafted a taut web of laughter and suspense, threaded with
questions about ethics and morality. The result is theatre entertainment
of the highest order.
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In their latest middle years two school friends find
themselves competing for the same position as CEO of a reputable company.
Matthew Earl Jones (Rands) and Simon Bowl (Plewman) face off in a
Sleuth-like dance of covert succession plans, false co-operation and
one-upmanship. It seems that both of them will go to any length to reach
the top of the corporate ladder. It is a riveting modern day battle for
supremacy. Fueled by an insatiable drive to win at all costs, their
weapons are ingenious scams, shady deals and broken promises. Confronted
by the excessive rivalry between the two, a young therapist Melissa,
played by Capetonian Adrienne Pearce, tries to understand what lies at the
heart of corruption: greed or need? Who is responsible and are they
redeemable?
The play offers a fresh insight into white collar crime in
our country. Underneath the twists and turns of a brilliant plot and
cleverly crafted comedy, lies the thin line between power and corruption,
ambition and revenge, the need to win and the need to dominate.
These ingredients make for a richly engaging and
multi-layered evening in the theatre.
The Insatiables is directed by Clare Stopford and runs
Tuesdays to Saturdays at Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay from 13th May to
6th June.
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