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Peace in Our Lifetime
Celebrated playwright, director and the newly appointed Artistic Director of the Windybrow Theatre, Jerry Pooe is proud to be staging Peace In Our Lifetime at the Windybrow Theatre starting from 12 June, 2007.
Peace In Our Lifetime is based on the story of Pooe’s Peace in the Valley which was first mounted at the Playhouse Drama Theatre on a professional stage in March 2000, after being at PACOFS, BAT Centre and Techniknon Natal, in a smaller scale in 1998. The show also enjoyed a successful tour to Western New York and Canada in June 2000.
The musical has been reworked to look at issues in a democratic society and peace on the African continent as a whole. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Julliet as well as Leonard Bernstein’s musical version, West Side Story, is the tale of star-crossed lovers, Sputla and Maria who come from different townships. They despairingly declare their feelings for each other and watch their love become battered and eventually crushed in conditions of conflict, revenge and gang warfare.
Production information
| Author & Director: | Jerry Pooe |
| Assistant Director: | Zenzi Mbuli |
| Music Director: | Edward Mathiba |
| Production Manager: | Peter Mokgosi |
| Stage Manager: | Charles Ngubane |
| Set Designer: | Bonginkosi Banda |
| Lighting Designer |
Declan Randall |
| Technical Co-ordinator: | John Ratshilumela |
| Performance Times: | Tuesday – Saturday : 20h00
Saturday: 15h00 Sunday: 15h00 |
| Tickets Prices: | R40.00 (Weekdays ) & R55.00 (Weekends) |
| Season: | 12 July 2007 – 22 July 2007 |
| Press Night: | Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT
LINDELWA MAHLABE
Tel: (011) 720 0003/4
Cell: 072 269 9037
E-mail: lindi@windybrowarts.co.za