On stage: Exciting Abrahamse and Meyer Summer Season of World Theatre -continues with three plays- two classic Tennessee Williams plays an audacious new South African play
| What: The Abrahamse and Meyer Summer Season of World Theatre Where: Artscape- three plays -Feb-April 2022 In repertory: A Streetcar Named Desire– February 2–12, 2022 Direct booking link -A Streetcar Named Desire: https://tickets.computicket.com/event/a_streetcar_named_desire/1276391 AND One Arm- February 9–19, 2022 Direct booking link – One Arm: https://tickets.computicket.com/event/one_arm/6753830 ~Contested Bodies or Doctor James Barry, Lord Charles Somerset and I – March 16–April 2, 2022 ~ NEW SA PLAY Direct booking link -Contested Bodies: https://tickets.computicket.com/event/contested_bodies/7178812 Special offer: For R600, purchase season tickets, to see all three plays in the season. This offer is valid until Jan 31, 2022. To book season tickets, contact the Artscape Box-Office Dial-A-Seat: 021 421 7695 Read about the summer season and other special offers: https://www.amptheatre.org/current-production |
In November 2021, Abrahamse and Meyer Productions staged Yukio Mishima’s The Lady Aoi, in the Artscape Arena, to rapturous reviews. The company’s Season of World Theatre, continues at Artscape with two classic plays by Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire and One Arm. The two plays will be play in repertory. The Tennessee Williams plays will be followed by a new play, in March 2022, an audacious new work: Contested Bodies or Doctor James Barry, Lord Charles Somerset and I. This is the world premiere of this new South African play. For only R600, theatre lovers can purchase season tickets, to see all three plays in the season. To book season tickets please contact the Artscape Box-Office 021 421 7695. See box for more details. Info as supplied:
| ABRAHAMSE AND MEYER SUMMER SEASON OF WORLD THEATRE The plays in the 2021/22 Summer Season of World Theatre: __________________________________________________________________________ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE One of the most important and influential plays of the 20th century, A Streetcar Named Desire, transformed modern drama and confirmed Tennessee Williams’ reputation as the greatest poet/playwright of the American stage. Now, in celebration of the play’s 75th anniversary, Abrahamse and Meyer Productions bring a radical, revisionist twist to this iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a searing new production that is bound to turn up the heat in this already scorching play. Starring: Fiona Ramsay as Blanche du Bois with Marcel Meyer, Melissa Haiden and Matthew Baldwin Direction: Fred Abrahamse Where: Artscape Theatre When: February 2–12, 2022 Tickets: R200-R380 A Streetcar Named Desire booking link: https://tickets.computicket.com/event/a_streetcar_named_desire/1276391 _______________________________________________________________________________ ONE ARM Abrahamse & Meyer’s critically acclaimed stage adaption of Tennessee Williams’ haunting short-story, One Arm returns to the Artscape Arena to play in repertory with A Streetcar Named Desire prior to both productions touring the USA. In this “dark poem whose theme is the prevalence of mutilations among us all” Williams endowed a tragic character of mythic proportion with a metaphor that often surfaces in his work – a capricious, if fateful, physical defect, manifests as a disfigurement of the soul. Starring: Marcel Meyer and Matthew Baldwin Direction: Fred Abrahamse Where: Artscape Arena When: February 9–19, 2022 Tickets: R125-R380 One Arm booking link: https://tickets.computicket.com/event/one_arm/6753830 ____________________________________________________________________________ CONTESTED BODIES or DOCTOR JAMES BARRY, LORD CHARLES SOMERSET AND I The flinging of human excrement by political activists, Chumani Maxwele, at the statue of British Imperialist, Cecil John Rhodes on 9 March 2015, became a watershed moment in how South Africans respond and relate to the trauma of our colonial past. In their “outrage for the stage” Abrahamse and Meyer do some faeces flinging of their own in an outrageous entertainment that is likely to be the most controversial and contested play of the year. Starring: Marcel Meyer, Matthew Baldwin and Lungile Lallie Direction: Fred Abrahamse Where: Artscape Arena March 16–April 2, 2022 Tickets: R250 ADULTS ONLY – strictly no under 18s. SLNVPS. Contains scenes with strong language, partial male nudity, violence, prejudice, and simulated sex Contested Bodies booking link: https://tickets.computicket.com/event/contested_bodies/7178812 ❇ Read more about the summer season and other special offers here: https://www.amptheatre.org/current-production Season tickets: For only R600, theatre lovers can purchase season tickets, to see all three plays in the season, at one low price. To book season tickets please contact the Artscape Box-Office/Dial-A-Seat: 021 421 7695 Box-Office Enquiries: 021 421 7839 Mondays to Fridays: 09:00 – 17:00 Saturdays: 09:00 – 12:30 ❇ This offer is valid from 10 January till 31 January 2022 ❇ |
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