Grand shows for Barnyard Theatre in 2006
2006-01-19
THE Barnyard Theatre at the Bridge House School in Simondium opens its year with a crazy musical comedy, Grand Hotel, on 28 January.
* Grand Hotel is produced by Rock ‘n Roll dynamo Duck Chowles, choreographed by Ramaine Barreiro and scripted by Bronwyn Evans.
It features a legendary hotel situated in Bellville in 1989 where patrons go to dance the night away forgetting about the transitional political climate of the time.
This crazy musical comedy is given a theatrical twist when the audience is invited to be the hotel patrons while the cast fills the roles of the cleaners, receptionists and cooks.
The Grand Hotel’s hot in-house band “Submarine” covers favourite hits from Kool and The Gang, Percy Sledge, David Kramer, Earth Wind and Fire, The Jackson Five to Stevie Wonder.
The show is on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 January, at R95 per person.
* Saturday 11 February features Second Slip at R80 per person.
In Second Slip, Anthony “Lasher” Dawkins is back in the new play from Nicholas Ellenbogen.
Lasher, a retired Bishops school master and his wife Dotty, have been given tickets to the Newlands Members stand as a gift from the Old Boys.
On Dotty’s death, the chair next to him becomes vacant. Enter Dudu Tshabalala, glamorous, bright and ambitious.
She acts like a shot of adrenaline to the old boy; but then, just to really get his juices flowing, the old boy Eric, who sat on the other side of him in the members' stand, passes away too.
Enter Bo Eley, Zimbabwe’s top gunsmith now retiring to the Cape. She has bought that seat in the Members' stand!
Veteran actress Liz Szymczak was last seen as Sonia in Mud River at the Kalk Bay Theatre. Lindiwe Matshikiza is the granddaughter of Todd Matshikiza, the man who wrote the music for King Kong.
Second Slip will be directed by the old master of light comedy, Andrew Brent.
His relationship with the theatre, and with Nicholas, goes back to the 60’s in London, where they performed classics together. He has now settled in Cape Town, working as a film and stage actor and director.
* The popular Diamonds and Dust is staged on Friday and Saturday 24 and 25 February at R95 per person.
Devised and directed by the Barnyard Production Company, this proudly South African production will take you on a journey of joy, heartache and emancipation.
It starts off in the swinging 40s and 50s with the music of the pennywhistle, also known as Kwela.
The show progresses onto the period of Kwela Jazz, which was played on the saxophone rather than the pennywhistle, and then moves on to a tribute to Miriam Makeba and the Manhattan Brothers with songs like The Click Song and Pata Pata.
* The Slaley Jazz Festival is on at the Barnyard during the weekend of 4 and 5 March, at R100 per person (Saturday 18:00-23:00 and Sunday 12:00-17:00.
With Slaley Wines and good food comes great music. The line-up include Breakfast Included, DNA Strings, Tony Cox and Steve Newman and Delta Blue. Take the family along and have a swinging time.
Bookings at Robyn Watkins, Barnyard Theatre at Bridge House tel/fax 874-1505 or cell 082-371-3267 or e-mail theatre@bridgehouse.org.za.
Doors open at 18:30 and the shows begin at 20:00.
Arrive well before curtain up, bring your picnic basket and enjoy your meal around heavy wooden tables in the unique atmosphere of the barn theatre.
Drinks can also be purchased from the wine and malt bar. Pack your own picnic basket or indulge in a specially prepared picnic feast.
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