UPCOMING SHOWS AT KBT

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FACE THE MUSIC

featuring  VANESSA SEARLE, LUCY TOPS & LEANI EKERMANS

JUNE 06 – 23, 2012

Wednesdays to Saturdays at 20h30

TICKETS – R95 [show only] / R245 [show + 2 course meal] / R295 [show + 3 course meal

BOOKING : www.kbt.co.za

 

 

 

 

Who sang the theme from Top Gun? Who’s won the most Grammy’s? Have you got the brains to take on our quiz?  The multi award-winning Follow Spot Productions brings yet another crowd pleasing hit – a spectacular music trivia game show! Our talented, charismatic trio, Vannessa Searle, Lucy Tops and Leani Ekermans, perform the greatest chart topping hits from the past fifty years with heaps of attitude.  Powerful harmonies, slick choreography and three glamorous girls – an hour of world-class entertainment to get the whole family in the groove.  Play the game or be a spectator – the choice is yours – JUST DON’T MISS THIS SHOW!

Vanessa Searle has been performing from a young age and has appeared in numerous productions such as  The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fangs – the musical, Fusion, The Buddy Holly story and playing the part of Wendy in the pantomime, Peter Pan. She spent six months performing in Asia with the touring cast of We Will Rock You – the Queen Musical and was seen on South African movie screens as the female lead in the late Bill Flynn’s comedy Running Riot, and of course at KBT in Love at First Fight.   A spectacular dancer and a classy singer, Vaneesa will rock your world.

Lucy Tops is a professionally trained singer and actress who schooled at the Waterfront Theatre School as well as being graded by the UK’s ISTD, Lucy is at home behind the microphone and in the limelight – or anywhere an audience needs to be wowed.   With her career on the fast track and her name getting out to the public, this blonde bombshell has a big career ahead of her.   Chad Saaiman wrote her first single titled ‘Higher Ground’ and now Lucy Tops just released her second single entitled “Love To Breathe” composed by Kyle Petersen.      Lucy has worked in China as a singer in a Hilton Hotel, performed in various Barnyard Shows such as ‘Glory Days’, ‘Dancing Queen’ and much more, as well as performing in many Mike Mcullagh shows, most recent being the successful ’That 80′s Show’ at Grandwest Casino.  Recently seen at KBT in “Absolucy”, she returns to KBT with Vaneesa and Leani in Face the Music.

Leani Ekermans, a singer, dancer, actress and model, is a recent graduate from the Waterfront Theatre School where she received her ATCL in Musical Theatre and excelled in various dance forms, including modern and jazz.    Leani has danced in the Great Moscow Circus in 2010, the 2010 Soccer World Cup Final Ball and many Moulin Rouge shows  at the prestigious Pigalle Restaurant in Cape Town, to name a few. She is currently touring with Mike McCullagh’s well-known ’60 Something’ and ‘Station 70′ as a vocalist and the
very popular ‘That 80′s Show’ at the Roxy RevueTheatre, Grandwest. She has also performed alongside veteran-soprano, Aviva Pelham, and sung at the beautiful Plantation-Club, Seychelles.    This hardworking blonde is a born performer and promises top-class entertainment!

MAC-DON’T-SAY-BETH

featuring  THE MUTUAL FRIENDS THEATRE

JUNE 27 – 30, 2012

Wednesdays to Saturdays at 20h30

TICKETS – R85 [SHOW ONLY]

R135 [SHOW + MEAT OR VEG BURGER + A BEER]

BOOKING : www.kbt.co.za

“Mac-Don’t-Say-Beth” is a light hearted comedy, set within the world of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.     The play centers around the 3 witches found in the beginning of Macbeth, until they are joined by the rest of the cast as they stumble in one after the other, delirious, lost, drunk and confused.

Lastly, as the name suggests, it pokes fun at the theatre superstition surrounding “Macbeth” which holds that  “Macbeth” is said to be cursed, so actors avoid saying its name (the euphemism “The Scottish Play” is used instead).      Actors also avoid even quoting the lines from Macbeth before a performance,  particularly the Witches’ incantations.    Outside of a theatre and after a performance the play can be spoken of openly.   If an actor speaks the name Macbeth in a theatre prior to a performance, he or she is required to leave the theatre building, spin around three times, spit, curse, and then knock to be allowed back in.

SUNDAY MORNING

with JAMES CUNNINGHAM

directed by JENINE COLLOCOTT : written by NICK WARREN

Designed by Alistair Findlay : Produced by WEST : Technical Support from Strike Alliance

JULY 12 to AUGUST 11, 2012 : Wednesdays to Saturdays at 20h30

 TICKET PRICES

Wednesdays  & Thursdays to July 31

R75 [show only]   :   R225 [show + 2 course meal]   :   R225 [show + 3 course meal]

Fridays & Saturdays  to July 31

R95 [show only]   :   R245 [show + 2 course meal]   :   R295 [show + 3 course meal]

Wednesdays to Saturdays in August

 R95 [show only]   :   R245 [show + 2 course meal]   :   R295 [show + 3 course meal]

BOOKING : www.kbt.co.za

Mat is a successful photographer who has his life exactly how he likes it – ordered, neat, and beautifully composed – until the day his girlfriend tells him she is pregnant.

In an attempt to process this disturbing information he goes out for a run. Straying from his regular route, he ventures into a strange part of the city where he makes a gruesome discovery that changes everything.

This fast-paced story is infused with the kind of aggressive wit, acute observation, real suspense, imminent danger, selfish need and poignant humanity that are the basic elements of urban life in contemporary Johannesburg.

Sunday Morning is the second co-production with Jenine Collocott and her husband, the internationally acclaimed and award winning writer Nick Warren.  The first was the highly successful one-man show Dirt with James Cairns.  The development of Sunday Morning was funded by Goethe Institut where it was produced for a short run in August 2011.  The production ran to full houses and received universal praise and acclaim.  Sunday Morning will be performed at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown festival as part of a selection of one-man shows on their main program.

A REVIEW

Sunday Morning: a theatrical gem

Robyn Sassen

Artslink review : 08/30/2011

My View by Robyn Sassen: A gem of a story that unfolds like a curvy road, “Sunday Morning”, built on principles of theatre pauvre will give flight to your heart and turn your head.

What a privilege it is to be witness to the consummate and collaborative skill of a team that works together with such generosity and respect, not only for the narrative unfolding, and the audience witnessing it, but for one another.   “Sunday Morning” is one of a new generation of theatre gems, moving boldly and beautifully from funding-draining issues which draw irrevocably from the true business of theatre-making.     This team works with what they have, to make theatre.      And what they have is priceless.

But it is more than all of this.   Not only is Cuningham’s performance as the crux and central character of the work flawless – he takes you from raucous laughter to the brink of bitter tears, and then pops a really funny metaphor at you to get the tears running in earnest and your audible sobs maskable in a paragraph of laughter – but it is the magnificently crafted writing of the work that enables it, devoid of set, of other cast members, of fancy expensive finery, to soar and touch the chords of what it is that makes us human.

While we don’t get to know Cuningham’s character by name, from the outside, as it were, we get to know him from the inside first, and explore with him his sense of deep sadness at how his life as a fine art photographer has not turned out to be the astonishing critical success he was led to believe it would.   He has his flaws, but he’s human, and the angers and sadnesses he articulates about dissolved dreams and a sense of powerless in beholding the seamless transition into his life by his girlfriend are convincing, articulate and something you can empathise with because you, too, are human.

But more than this, the story is coloured by writing so graphic, so poetic and so carefully hewn, that images flit through your sensibilities, illustrating the work in your mind’s eye, even though the set is base and plain.    Without offering plot spoilers, it’s a tale of babies lost and babies found. Of ambivalence regarding new life and new responsibilities and it has twists in it which are apt to give you a sense of emotional whiplash.

MAFEKING ROAD

with ANDREW LAUBSCHER & MATTHEW LEWIS

directed by TARA LOUISE NOTCUTT

AUGUST 15 to SEPTEMBER 08, 2012

Wednesdays to Saturdays at 20h30

TICKETS – R115 [SHOW ONLY]

FIRST WEEK SPECIAL – R85 per ticket [SHOW ONLY]

BOOKING : www.kbt.co.za

Hot on the heels of its runaway success at last year’s National Arts Festival, the award-winning Mafeking Road comes to KBT in August/September 2012.

Winner of the Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award for Physical Theatre at the 2011 National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, Mafeking Road is a one hour whirlwind that whips through some of the best-loved short stories by one of South Africa’s greatest writers.   The physical theatre talents of Andrew Laubscher (Lovborg’s Women, Is it because I’m Jack) and Mathew Lewis (Lenny and the Wasteland) come together under the direction of Tara Notcutt (director of …miskien; Dream, Brother; and Thom Pain) to bring you well-loved stories such as In The Withaak’s Shade, and Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy in a way that they have never been seen before!

On a wild ride through the Groot Marico, Oom Schalk Lourens tells his tales of a world where a horse named Bertie, a leopard with many spots, and a pretty young girl fresh from finishing school await. Presented through a mixture of the exciting physical theatre and comic book styles, this is Bosman for the next generation.
More details to follow

BENCH

with BRENT PALMER & DAVID JOHNSON

directed by MICHAEL KIRCH

SEPTEMBER 12 to OCTOBER 07, 2012

Wednesdays to Saturdays at 20h30 & Sundays at 19h30

TICKET PRICES

Weds & Thurs to 30.09

R75 [show only]   :   R225 [show + 2 course meal]   :   R275 [show + 3 course meal]

 Fridays to Sundays to 30.09 & Wed to Sun Oct 03 to Oct 07

 R95 [show only]   :   R245 [show + 2 course meal]   :   R295 [show + 3 course meal]

BOOKING : www.kbt.co.za

Bench is a gritty comedy drama about two small time crooks sat on a park bench, on the brink of their most daring job to date. However, when one of them gets a crisis of conscience and begins to question the job, the planning takes an interesting turn…

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