Dear Members and Friends,
September is here and spring should be just around the corner!
Firstly on behalf of the Society we extend our condolences to Lyn Brandon-Podd and family on the passing of Garth (our very own ‘Basil Fawlty’). Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Now for theatre update. During the last 6 weeks the stage floor has been buckling and bending and, upon investigation, we have discovered that the original floor (under the one you see) is rotting away and will have to be replaced. This has meant we have had to cancel any further dance shows for this year, as the floor is not safe for dancers in its current state. The floor is scheduled to be replaced December/ January at a cost of R45,000.00.
The committee are working on all sorts of ideas to ensure we have the cash however we need your assistance and support to ensure we have the funds to cover this expense so watch for next month’s newsletter.
The next show at the Playhouse will be Carnivals of the Heart production of ‘Streetcar named Desire’. This drama has been given the Darryl touch and promises to provide a good evening’s entertainment.
Giles Scott had his auditions on Sunday and has assembled an excellent cast for his production ‘Who did you say you were’. This production is scheduled for October.
We all need to sell and support these shows to maximise income for the Society.
We heard through the grapevine that Lisa Squire-Jones will soon be leaving us to relocate to Gauteng. We wish you and Mike luck in your new venture. We will miss you.
Thanks to everyone,
Regards
Lindsay S.
Chairman!
See you at the theatre!
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STARTING THIS WEDNESDAY @ 19:30!
This award winning American classic has never looked this good.
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Price for Drama in 1948 following a successful run on Broadway. Since termed the American classic, this play takes on new levels with Spijkers` use of music and movement to capture smokey New Orleans. Blanche du Bois is a fading, but still-attractive, Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask alcoholism and delusions for grandeur.
Direction by Darryl J Spijkers and choreography by Verne Osmand starring Patrick Lloyd O’Brien, Lizelle Gouws, Brendin Mourratts, Roxy Caroline, Caroline Mae Brinckmann, Samantha Taylor, Rick Harington, Daneel Van Wyk, Thomas Agates and many more.
Dates and Times:
- Sept 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 @ 19h30
- Sept 21 @ 14h30
Prices:
please book at www.computicket.com
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AUDITION NOTICE
AMADEUS by Peter Schaffer
Directed by Philippe Pringiers
HHDS will stage this Tony Award winning play, next year April at the Playhouse in Somerset West. Auditions will be held on Sunday October 27 from 5 pm onwards for the 9 speaking parts. Non-speaking parts will be auditioned in January. Rehearsals will be every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 pm and Sunday at 5 pm, although certainly in the early stages of the process, not all actors will be needed at every rehearsal. A detailed rehearsal schedule is available on the Facebook event page.
Facebook event page for Amadeus audition: Click Here to stay up to date with more info
Actors auditioning will be asked to prepare a piece from the script. These pieces are also available from the Facebook event page. In order to streamline the audition, you are encouraged to book your 10 min’s audition slot through Facebook or email philippe@pringiers.co.za
Speaking characters:
Antonio Salieri: male, 30-50s. This is the main part and requires an enormous stage presence and contains several long monologues. A very demanding part giving the actor the opportunity to portrait a very tormented and complex personality. A basic knowledge or ability to speak Italian and French is required. The part also requires some singing. Piano playing is a plus but not essential.
Continuously and rigorously observing the courtesies of the time and place, Salieri is a mediocre composer who is on the one hand fascinated by Mozart’s genius but on the other hand appalled by his lack of style. Salieri who has sworn his life to God in order to create that one masterpiece of music which will make him immortal is deeply envious at Mozart’s easy way of creating such oeuvres. This envy leads him to secretly obstruct the young genius’s progress resulting finally in his death caused by sickness and poverty. In later years Salieri, realising that he will never beat Mozart’s famousness with his music, seeks immortality through the recognition of being to blame for the genius’s death. This is where the play starts as a flashback.
Mozart: male, 25, small, large eyed, pallid, restless and volatile, high voice. Singing voice and piano playing would be preferred. This part is obviously also crucial to the success of the play. It is important to portray the complete opposite characters of Mozart and Salieri. Whereas the latter is composed but shrewd, Mozart is extremely outspoken but naive.
Constanze: female, 18-30, high spirited. A bit childish to start but becoming more world-wise throughout the play. One scene might require a degree of nudity: actresses please to indicate what they are comfortable with.
Venticelli: 2 male or female characters of any age. They are the gossipers of Vienna and speak very rapidly. Their parts can be compared to jesters.
Emperor Joseph: male 30-50, commanding personality, pleased with himself, not too bright. Basic knowledge of French is required.
Count von Strack: male, 55, stiff and proper
Count Orsini-Rosenberg: male, 60, plump and supercilious
Baron van Swieten: male, 50, cultivated and serious
Non-speaking characters:
Kapellmeister Bonno: male, 50-70, has a few lines to say.
Salieri’s cook: male, preferably a more corpulent, short figure
Salieri’s valet: male, in contrast to the cook it would be preferable to have a tall, very slim figure
8 Citizens of Vienna: male/female, all ages
Priest: male, 30-70, this part will most probably be a double role with being a citizen of Vienna.
4 servants: male/female, all ages. They act as stagehands bringing on and removing furniture and props.
Teresa Salieri: female, 30-40, placid lady described by Salieri as lacking fire.
Katharina Cavalieri: female, 18-30, soprano voice. During one scene, some degree of nudity/revealing will be required.
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HHDS DIRECTORS
SEMINAR 2014
CALLING ALL Directors and 2014 Hire Parties,
Don’t Forget, the plan for 2014 is in place! Please be informed of a compulsory Productions Seminar on Sunday 22 September at 6PM at the Playhouse.
This is for the DIRECTOR and STAGE MANAGER of your production to attend. Interested members of the public are more than welcome to attend but not permitted to ask questions unless time allows.
The bar will be open afterwards for general discussion. Should you be unable to attend, a separate meeting must be arranged with you before your slot is officially booked!
Please confirm you attendance by
12 September 2013.
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Our condolences to Lyn Brandon-Podd and family on the passing of GarthBrandon- Podd
Garth had been suffering from Prostate Cancer for some considerable time, and despite undertaking all the latest treatments bravely, he had gone downhill rapidly in recent weeks. He had a spell in the Old Stellenbosch hospice until last week, but wanted to come home to be with Lyn and his family and friends around him. He faded away peacefully.
The funeral was heald at Mountain View Baptist Church, Heritage Park on Saturday 7th Sept at 10.30 am – instead of flowers, fans and friends donated to the Old Stellenbosch Road Hospice where Garth spent some of his time.
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Members Evening
2 Acts! 1 Play!
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Beware the Ides of March
“Beware the Ides of March” is a short play inspired by Shakespeare’s Caesar. However the play is in modern 21st century English, and has a timeless setting. You will see ancient Rome, early 19th century France, nowadays South-Africa and indeed nowadays global humanity side by side.
12 Characters represent and portray a problem of all ages: Do the people still have the ability to raise noble men? And does the humble man, once in power, inevitably become corrupt? What are the duties of the electorate in a democracy, then and now?
The play also brings quite a few newcomers to the stage: Estelle O’Neill, Michelle Strauss and Marie-Claire Stewart, Mighaela Alexander, Bronwyn Bennie and Bernie Jacobs alongside ‘old rots’: Andre Kershaw, Philippe Pringiers, Colette Dacre, Katjenka Pringiers, Hugo Botha and Gert Venter.
Adapted and directed by Pilar Spinnox.
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Bevange
‘Bevange’ is a modern Afrikaans play about 7 teenagers who went out to a club a Friday night and got involved with drugs.
The whole story takes place in a holding cell, with shouting policemen, just after they got arrested.
Why are they here? How do they all fit in? How do their stories fit in? Do teenagers only use drugs to be accepted by others? What is the deeper story of each character?
With a fantastic cast consisting of Rick Harington, Nadia van der Merwe, Tamsyn Hanslo, Hugo Botha, Mighaela Alexander, Nicol Jansen & Heinrich Vermeulen, be sure to come and find the answers to the questions out.
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Congratulations to those that auditioned for winning through one of the toughest auditions Giles Scott has experienced!
Welcome back to those I have worked with before. And a hearty welcome to our ‘newcomers’.
All of you richly deserve the parts you have been given. I can’t wait to start working with you all.
So the cast, in order of appearance, is:
Chrissie: Bettina Horvath
Alan: Herman Hearn
Geoff: Graham Kershaw
Sue: Barbara-Marie Immelman
Lizzie: Anne Walsh
Jennifer: Heidi Laubscher
Vic: Norman MacFarlane
Celebrity: Martin Linette
Bert: Bill Kemlo
Slugger: Michael Wills
The cast’s first read through was held last Wednesday and the show is officially on schedule.
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‘My Dog’s Got No Nose’
4- 6 Oct 2013
Written by Ron Aldridge.
By popular demand, Raymond Rudolph stars in this one-man comedy, which is presented as a fundraiser in aid of the Masque Theatre, Muizenberg, Cape Town.
Directed by Celia Musikanth, it is a journey around a stand-up comedian’s first ever public performance – his lifelong dream covers everything from comedy, unrequited love, dogs, the facts of life, animal-lovers and a whole lot more.
In this funny, bitter-sweet story, we discover that the man and his “performance” are not quite what they seem. Hilarious, provocative & poignant, with dramatic twists in the tale, the show recently had its African premiere at the 2013 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
“HIS HILARIOUS PERFORMANCE WILL KEEP YOU GLUED TO YOUR SEATS“.
L.M. – Cue (National Arts Festival Newspaper) – 2013.
“I DIDN’T INTEND WATCHING BUT IT STARTED AS I WALKED IN. I LOVED IT SO MUCH: FUNNY, TOUCHING, BEAUTIFUL. 4 STARS“.
Marcel Oudejans (Comedy Magician) – 2013.
“THIS SHOW IS THE BEST, BEST THING I’VE EVER, EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE – YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED“.
His mother – 2013.
” AW SHUCKS! …THANKS, MA“.
The performer – 2013.
As an added bonus, the performer will be available after the show to sign autographs, t-shirts or fans’ breasts.
The show is a fundraiser for the Masque Theatre, Muizenberg, which currently requires funds in excess of R1-million for necessary repairs to its infrastructure and for an upgrade of its technical equipment.
Proceeds will be donated to the theatre to help it continue providing top quality entertainment to the people of Cape Town.
Performances:
8 pm on Fri 4 Oct, Sat 5 Oct & Sun 6 Oct, 2013.
Book online at quicket.co.za. There is no set ticket-price. Pay what you can afford… Choose from R200, R150, R100, R80, or R60 per ticket.
Full details, with links to the Facebook Event, Booking Site, & YouTube trailer can be found on about.me/raymrud.
PLEASE SHARE THIS EVENT ONLINE WITH YOUR FRIENDS & FOLLOWERS.
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HHDS and Carnivals of the Heart present…
CINDERELLA!!! Set in Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap! Christmas pantomime fun… Not to be missed… For all ages! Day time and evening shows from 6 – 16 December! All tickets R50 through Computicket…
More info in next newsletter!!!
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Directors Seminar: 22nd September (Evening)
Directors Ticket: 28nd September (Evening)
Audition Notice for Amadeus: 27th October at 6pm
Who Did You Say You Were?: 21st October – 3rd November
Amanda Peacefull: 24th November
Cinderella van die Kaap: 8th – 20th December |
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