Presented by The Pink Couch. Directed by Tara Notcutt
Any “serious” reader of Herman Charles Bosman’s stories of the Groot Marico knows only too well how totally zany the characters and situations are – in a tightly-buttoned-up-like-a-dominee-at-Sunday-morning-nagmaal kind of way.
So, despite their slow start, I warmed to Andrew Laubscher and Mathew Lewis’s depictions of life on that other planet. It soon becomes a rapid gallop through Bosman’s best stories; thankfully the audience doesn’t have to endure the stultifying rendition of all 176 verses of Psalm 119, as the congregation had to in The Bekkersdal Marathon.
Bekkersdal is just one of many stories from Bosman’s collection given a modern technological twist and a physical interpretation. Andrew and Mathew flit from one character to another and their antics will leave you breathless. I thoroughly enjoyed the production and the ovation the duo received was well-deserved.
- RAY HARTLE
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