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Windybrow Theatre’s showcase at the Grahamstown Arts Festival 2011
Dates: 30 June - 10 July 2011
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The Windybrow Theatre will be showcasing three productions for the first time at the Grahamstown Arts Festival, namely, Last Pro, Modus Vivendi and Sacred Woman. Two of these productions, Modus Vivendi and Sacred Woman were developed from the National Arts Council’s Mentorship and Developmental project which was presented as a Script Reading Festival at Grahamstown Arts Festival in 2009. The two productions were then staged for the first time at the Windybrow Theatre in October 2010.

Last Pro(Written and Directed by Martin Koboekae)

Synopsis

When Camellia, an ageing white prostitute, loses her sex appeal in an upmarket brothel in Rosebank, Johannesburg, and causes her clients to run for cover, she is forced to migrate to the less illustrious streets of Yeoville to retire ungracefully. There, she plies her trade in Pope Street and immediately becomes a hit with the black clients who think they are scoring big with a white pro. Overlooking the spot where Camellia solicits for business is a flat occupied by two men (a celebrated short story writer and his incorrigible flatmate) who are down on their luck. They keep themselves busy by watching Camellia from their balcony and making wild assumptions about her. One thing they agree on is that she is a real "Pro" However, danger lurks uncomfortably and luck comes knocking unexpectedly: what is revealed is a twenty-six year old mystery in the form of a coloured boy's picture which elicits conflicting truths about paths that have crossed dramatically in the past. Last Pro in Yeoville is humorous and fast paced, and is written with wit and compassion.



Sacred Woman(Written by Nontsikelelo Tsholofelo Motsikoe and Directed by Oscar Motsikoe)


Synopsis

Nomalanga is a spiritual leader in a village of traditionalists. This village is in conflict with itself battling to preserve its inheritance in the modern time. The village river is the one source of nature that connects the people with those who came before them but the ancient waters have turn against the people, men and women who drink from it become sterile, lives of young children and the aged is threatened. This spiritual leader, uNomalanga works tirelessly for her people but she is herself battling with her conflict. After years of practice she finds herself in dispute with her guide and takes a strong stand in what she personally believes in. This leads to her losing what matters to her most and her child and her anger makes her rebel against the spirit world.




Modus Vivendi (Written by Pepi Khambule and Directed by Monageng Vice Motshabi)

Synopsis

Lahlemthini Maqoma is a successful black businessman living in the heart of Johannesburg, who decides to be a polygamist as his “A list” actress wife Sirius Mboweni- Maqoma begins menopause cycle. But when he breaks the news to the wife he does not give her the option but to pack if she does not oblige. Lahlemthini pursues his new found tradition with all the financial influence from his peers in the political cycle. He neglects Sirius screaming in the limbo and takes Maranello, a prostitute and his secretary, Natalie Barman’s hand in marriage, thus Modus Vivendi.



For more infomation contact:
Rantiti Penane
011 042 8238






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