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Claremont Chat – September 2016

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Claremont Chat

Claremont Dramatic Society Newsletter

The Hok, Thicket Street, Claremont, 7708

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email: claremontdramatic@gmail.com

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September 2016 – Number 160

Hi everyone!

Members evening report back

Our last members evening on 26 August was a great success and it was very gratifying to see so many people there. Roy Oldfield ran a very enjoyable quiz, which was varied and interesting and certainly proved why my default quiz team name is Jon Snow: I really don’t know anything!

Lynn Moss then ran a Shakespearean charades game which was the source of much hilarity. Gratifyingly, my team did rather well in that and won the game. (Thank goodness for that: we’d have been more than slightly embarrassed if we didn’t, considering that all three actors from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare were in the team!)

Members evenings 2016

There will be two more members evenings for CDS this year. The next one is on 7 October at the Hok. Entertainment for the evening will feature a short extract from our upcoming production of Silly Cow and a play directed by Matt Roy.

Our year-end members evening, so you can diarise the date now, will be on 4 December.

Director’s tickets

We need new directors for our CDS productions. If you are interested in directing, we’d love to have you! All you need to do is stage a short play or play extract at a members evening to get your director’s ticket. For more information or to propose a play, contact our members evening convenor Matt Roy (contact details at the end of this newsletter).

Silly Cow update

Remember to come to our next members evening on 7 October for a sneak preview of this bright pink play!

Silly Cow by Ben Elton follows ballsy, foul-mouthed tabloid writer Doris Wallace as she gets everything that’s coming to her. It’s a slick, modern satire, full of razor-sharp dialogue that is at times vulgar but funny and clever from start to finish. This hilarious piece was originally produced in 1991 on London’s West End and is one of only four stage plays written by Ben Elton. In 2016, this production marks the directorial debut of Faeron Wheeler. The production runs 21–29 October and tickets are R70-R80.

New members!

A warm CDS welcome to Linda and Laurence Steele and Keshia Codron who joined the society in August. We look forward to seeing you at our events and plays!

Digital archive

As Simon mentioned at the members evening, I have started collating pictures and info about our past productions from Facebook and the newsletter archive (which is on our blog). Check out the production list here: claremontdramatic.weebly.com.

If anyone has any images or information they’d like to add, please feel free to send them to me (Kim R2 – contact details at the bottom of the Chat). I will be going through the archive at the Hok as well to put it all together though that may have to wait until a certain play is over and I have slightly more free time!

The Chessboard Killer

Pinelands Players present a new play! Written and directed by Graham Leverton, this thriller sees two detectives playing a cat and mouse game with a serial killer who bases his killing spree on the pieces of a chessboard.

The play will be staged from 30 September to 2 October at The Crossing in Pinelands.

Pa, Maak vir my ’n vlieër Pa

Milnerton Players present their first ever Afrikaans production, so if you praat die taal, make sure to come along and support this excellent, locally grown play by Chris Barnard. The set is built and painted and the three talented cast members are working very hard in rehearsals under Mari Mocke’s meticulous direction.

In the genre of Theatre of the Absurd and filled with emotional dialogue, the piece is set in the 1960s with the action taking place in a cramped untidy house where Org and his elderly, sometimes mentally unstable, mother live. The literal meaning of the title, Dad Make me a Kite, Dad, eventually becomes apparent as being the answer to a basically happy life: to belong lovingly to someone near to you, in this case, a son wanting his father to know and love him; if only they could fly a kite together.

See you at the theatre!

Calendar

16 Aug–1 Oct	Clybourne Park presented by Eric Abraham	Fugard Theatre
23 Aug–24 Sep	The Painted Rocks presented by Eric Abraham	Fugard Theatre
25 Aug–17 Sep	Remembering the Lux	Baxter Theatre
31 Aug–24 Sep	Karoo Moose presented by Golden Arrow Studio	Baxter Theatre
12–17 Sep	Egoli The Musical	Masque Theatre
13–17 Sep	Anthology: After the End directed by Louis Viljoen	Alexander Bar
13 Sep–8 Oct	Cattle Drive created by Nicholas and Luke Ellenbogen	Rosebank Theatre
16–18 Sep	The Sleeping Beauty presented by Cape Town City Ballet	Artscape
16–23 Sep	Born Around Here and The Rabble	Artscape
18 Sep	Foyer session: Jazz without Borders	Masque Theatre
20 Sep–15 Oct	Big Boys the Third featuring Ash and Brad Searle	Kalk Bay Theatre
21–22 Sep	The Final Bow directed by Nadine Suliaman	Galloway Theatre
22–23 Sep	Cirque Afrika presented by The Stage Performing Arts Studio	Masque Theatre
22 Sep–1 Oct	Blood Brothers presented by Carnivals of the Heart	Somerset West Playhouse
22–29 Sep	Death of a Clown presented by Masidlale in collaboration with Oddbody Theatre	Alexander Bar
22 Sep–8 Oct	The Emissary written and directed by Louis Viljoen	Alexander Bar
23–24 Sep	Puppet Guy featuring Conrad Koch	Baxter Theatre
23 Sep–8 Oct	Pa, Maak vir my ’n vlieër Pa presented by Milnerton Players	Milnerton Playhouse
25 Sep–1 Oct	#BALLETMUSTFALL directed by Jared Musiker	Alexander Bar
1–2 Oct	The Chessboard Killer presented by Pinelands Players	The Crossing, Pinelands
1–8 Oct	Cut in Two directed by Soli Philander	Alexander Bar
2–8 Oct	Kinders van die Wind directed by Terence Makapan	Alexander Bar
10–21 Oct	I Love You Sally Field written and directed by Wessel Pretorius	Alexander Bar
10–22 Oct	The Finkelsteins are Coming to Dinner directed by Adrian Collins	Alexander Bar
18–19 Oct	Adapt or Fly created and performed by Pieter-Dirk Uys	Alexander Bar
21–29 Oct	Silly Cow presented by Claremont Dramatic Society	Masque Theatre