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Girl In The Yellow Dress
27 Sep 2011 – 18 Dec 2011
Venue: Main Theatre
Ages: All Ages
2 NALEDI AWARDS
Best New South African Play
Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role
1 FLEUR du CAP
Best Director
The Girl in the Yellow Dress premiered at the National Grahamstown Arts Festival in 2010 followed by a sold-out seasons at both the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and the Traverse Theatre for the duration of the Edinburgh Festival. It then transferred to Live Theatre in Newcastle, the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and the Stockholms Stadsteater — again playing to full houses. Coming home, it played to almost full capacity from its first day — and now returns to the Market Theatre due to popular demand. Opening on 27 September 2011, with new cast member Kate Liquorish as Celia, this promises to be a theatre experience to cherish.
Originally inspired by Ovid’s story Echo and Narcissus and psychoanalytic writings on narcissism, The Girl in the Yellow Dress is set in contemporary Paris and deals with the exchanges between Celia, a beautiful English teacher in her late twenties, and Pierre, her younger French-Congolese pupil.
Brimming with humour, rage and longing, this internationally celebrated South African play provides a minute exploration of an increasingly hazardous romantic entanglement and an insight into some of the tensions between the ‘first’ and ‘third’ worlds. Part psychological thriller and part a State of the Nation analysis, it tackles issues such as language, power, identity, sex, past trauma, class, exile and refugees — tensions that run through South African society and beyond.
After seeing this play in Edinburgh, the National Theatre in London commissioned Craig Higginson’s next play, Little Foot, which will premier at the 2012 Olympics. Since opening, The Girl in the Yellow Dress already has new productions emerging in Salisbury, Chicago and New York. The script has been published by Oberon Books in London and is in its second print run. This is Higginson’s second original play after the internationally acclaimed Dream of the Dog, which transferred to London’s West End last year.
This production is directed once again by theatre veteran Malcolm Purkey, Artistic Director of the Market Theatre, best known for his international hit Sophiatown. The talented Cape-Town-based Kate Liquorish brings a fresh interpretation of Celia and rising soapie star Nat Ramabulana returns as Pierre (Nat was nominated for Naledi and Fleur du Cap awards for this role last year).Television production by Paul Tilsley and Competent Artistes www.competentartistes.tv
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