| Wegwereld – presented by Parel Vallei High School, Somerset West When and where: Friday August 25, 2023 at 8.pm, at the Baxter Theatre- part of the ATKV Western Cape regional festival Playwright and director: Darryl Spijkers Booking: Webtickets Direct booking link: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/Seating.aspx?itemid=1532009420 and follow https://www.facebook.com/ATKVSA/ for more Scroll down for details of the five leads in the cast |
Wegwereld, presented by Parel Vallei High School, Somerset West, was recently named the overall winner of the Playhouse Drama Festival in Somerset West [July-August 2023]. Last week, the play won top prize at the Durbanville High Drama Festival [August 2023] and won six awards all up. This acclaimed production is on Friday August 25, 2023 at 8.30pm, at the Baxter Theatre, as part of the ATKV Western Cape regional festival. It is an epic scale production – 45 on stage- with five lead actors and a large supporting company, which includes dancers. The production is 47 minutes. Tickets may be booked through Webtickets. Read on for more from writer/director, Darryl Spijkers. And may we give a shout-out to Spijkers’ commitment to creating original work for teens and for nurturing drama on a school level. Info as supplied:
Parel Vallei delivers another powerful Afrikaans play to Cape Town audiences
“A search for the light on the horizon,” is how award-winning director and writer, Darryl Spijkers, describes the origin of Parel Vallei High School in Somerset West’s latest school theatre production, Wegwereld. “It started with a song about the promise of light and then we added a seasoned cast of performers. From there this hopeful pilgrimage unfolded; a story for everyone to experience.”
“This is the biggest production that these ATKV ‘Tienertoneel’ champions of 2021 and 2022 have yet undertaken”, adds Spijkers. With a powerful ensemble and technical team of a total of 45 Parel Valleiers, this year, “they take their audience on a wonderful visual journey to an apocalyptic world where lonely people are alone together and silence screams rock hard.”
“All the bad things we thought could happen to the planet have become a reality. The world we knew is gone. A small dystopian community stayed behind and protected themselves from what lurked outside the city’s walls. However, the fragility of humanity screams louder than the noisy excess of their ‘dreamland’ and we see how this strange green colony bakes milk tarts every Monday and exchanges words at the market to the rhythm of 80s dance music – all as a form of preservation and protection of their identity as a chosen people.”
All this whimsy is not to be underestimated. Within the layered text are powerful comments about leadership, rules, culture and the diversity and celebration of language.
The grandeur of the set together with the impressive costumes, technical elements and hand puppets as well as the use of music and dance, combined with fine, well-rounded performances by a strong group of players, offers a type of escapism that is brilliantly confronting and lingering.
“True light and dark actually become so clear in a world where people believe without questioning and act without thinking. As a spectator, you discover that no one is just rich or just poor. Sometimes wealth comes in culture, trust, bravery and the overarching spirit of Ubuntu that makes us proudly South African.”
| Wegwereld – presented by Parel Vallei High School, Somerset West Playwright and director: Darryl Spijkers The five leads are: Qawekhazi Samson as Molobasie Doline Havinga as Hanli Paul Strydom as Tommy Josh Simone as Brumulda Brummel Nina Strydom as Die Boekhouer The cast of 45, includes dancers Wegwereld will be on Friday August 25, 2023 at 8.30pm, at the Baxter Theatre, as part of the ATKV Western Cape regional festival Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ATKVSA/ |
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