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Masque Theatre Christmas Market in Muizenberg

24/11/2013

 
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Masque Theatre
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Sunday 08 December 2013
from 10:00 to 14:00
Christmas is upon us! Get some early Christmas shopping done and join in the fun on Sunday, 08 December 2013, from 10:00 - 14:00. You will find us at 37 Main Rd, next to False Bay Station.
This once-off market is part of a fundraising campaign to raise funds for a new roof and air-conditioning repairs for our community theatre, the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg. 

Entrance is free, and there will ample and safe parking with security (the venue is also pram and wheelchair friendly).

You are in for quite a treat. We offer Solar Lights and Décor, Beaded Jewellery, Art, Gifts Galore, Jams, Homemade Preserves, Food Stalls, CDs and DVDs, Books, Face Painting and Child Care, White Elephant Stall and much more!



Call To Audition: " Here Lies Jeremy Troy" for Milnerton Players

22/11/2013

 
HERE LIES JEREMY TROY, by Jack Sharkey, directed for Milnerton Players by Mari Mocke.
Venue: Milnerton Playhouse
Date: Sunday 8 December at13.30 for 14.00
Production Dates: March 2014
SYNOPSIS
This farce revolves around the main character, Jeremy Troy, who has led his wife, his boss, and his friends, to believe that he is a qualified lawyer. Because one of the partners in the law firm for which he works, has recently died, Jeremy is hoping that he will be promoted to take that person’s place. He has therefore invited his boss, Mr. Sven Ivorsen, who has never met his wife, Kathryn, to dinner.

Charlie Bickle, a friend whom Jeremy has not seen for a long time, turns up unexpectedly at Jeremy’s home, intending to talk his way into being accommodated there for a period of time. Charlie is an artist and he hires Tina Winslow, a model, to come over to Jeremy’s house to sit for a portrait.

Initially Jeremy and Kate are in and out of the house, and there is a merry mix-up before the important dinner-date, during which time it is suggested that the model pretends to be the wife, Kathryn, whom she has also never met, and to prepare the dinner for the boss. When Kate returns before dinner, she is totally confused by the situation and thinks that her husband has been having an affair with Tina behind her back. 

However, all’s well that ends well and within all the comedy action there is also a love story.

CAST REQUIRED
  • JEREMY TROY: Outgoing, handsome – Early 30’s. (Large part)
  • KATHRYN TROY: Jeremy’s wife. Prettily feminine – Late 20’s. (Large part)
  • CHARLIE BICKLE: An old friend of Jeremy’s. Extrovert, artist – Early 30’s. (Large part)
  • TINA WINSLOW: Undergraduate model. Petite & attractive, easily excitable – Early 20’s. (Large part)
  • SVEN IVORSEN: Jeremy’s lawyer boss. Middle-aged,suave. Enjoys high society.(Medium part)

Backstage & technical people will also be required for stage management, props, costumes, lighting & sound design & operation, set building & painting and rehearsal prompt.

For more information please contact the director, Mari Mocke on (021) 556 2415 or 082 708 4794 or by  email

A fairy-tale with a difference in "Cinderella van die Kaap" at The Playhouse, Somerset West

20/11/2013

 
Cinderella van die Kaap
The Playhouse and Carnivals of the Heart presents Cinderella van die Kaap

The Playhouse and Carnivals of the Heart is proud to present the classic fairy-tale with a difference! Cinderella van die Kaap is the good old story complete with pumpkin, silver slipper and step-sisters! The action all takes place in Cape Tow's Bo-Kaap with an amazing support cast of diverse and crazy characters to laugh at and remember. This show is written and directed by Darryl Spijkers who has given us local productions such as The Little Mermaid, Snow White and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Cinderella lives on Tamatie Straat and her father is away on business. Her step mother Ellen Thriller is voted in as the new mayor of Cape Town. Her neighbour Bonita has a son who owes a gang leader some money which he can`t pay back. The action is all complicated by the arrival of a Nigerian family, a lottery win, a hungry bergie and the forced relocation of the residents of the street. Narrated by a group of worn-out street animals there are many surprises accompanied by 18 live musical numbers.

Suitable for the entire family, you will laugh and you will cry! Don`t miss this hilarious roller-coaster pantomime!

On Show December 6–16, 2013
Tickets R50
Bookings through Computicket

Friday Dec 6 @ 19h00
Saturday Dec 7 @ 19h00
Sunday Dec 8 @ 14h30
Wednesday Dec 11 @ 10h00 and 14h30
Thursday Dec 12 @ 10h00 and 14h30
Friday Dec 13 @ 19h00
Saturday Dec 14 @ 19h00
Sunday Dec 15 @ 14h30
Monday Dec 16 @ 14h30 and 19h00
Cinderella Cast
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High Octane Farcical Comedy in "It Runs In The Family" at the Milnerton Playhouse

19/11/2013

 
It Runs In The Family
"It Runs In The Family", a classic farce by Ray Cooney, directed by Johan van der Merwe opens at the Milnerton Playhouse on 22 November 2013.

An hilarious farce set in the doctors' common room of a London hospital three days before Christmas. Dr David Mortimore is preparing his lecture for a conference of neurosurgeons that should guarantee him a knighthood and the hospital some badly needed funds when a former nurse bursts in with the news that their fling some 18 years and 9 months ago made Mortimore a father. The boy, emotionally highly strung and under arrest for drunken driving, is downstairs, desperate to meet his long-lost Dad.

In the midst of Mortimore's panic, deception, mistaken identities, double-entendres, puns and flapping doors fuel this high-octane comedy. Lies pile on lies, as Mortimore enlists his colleagues to deceive his wife, his boss, a police sergeant and even his new-found son. Sharp syringes, crashing wheelchairs and window ledge wrestling matches unfold as events begin to spin deliriously out of control.

Performances: 22, 23, 28, 29 & 30 November 2013 at 20:00 and a matineé on 30 Nov. at 14:00
For telephone bookings contact 082 2671061, alternatively book online or via email.

Alfred Hitchcock's thrilling masterpiece, "Rope" on at the Masque Theatre

18/11/2013

 

They thought that murder was an art ... and that they would get away with it ...

Muizenberg Dramatic Society presents Alfred Hitchcock's thrilling masterpiece "ROPE", directed by Alistair Duff, on at the Masque Theatre, Muizenberg from 29 November 2013.
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Adapted from the screenplay  by Arthur Laurent, Alfred Hitchcock's thrilling suspense mystery is based upon a play by Patrick Hamilton, which in turn was based upon a true story of a murder that rocked polite society in the 1920s. In order to prove their superior intellects, two talented, well-to-do young men commit "the perfect crime" to illustrate the superman theories of Nietzsche, taught to them by their schoolmaster, Rupert Cadell.

A supper party is then held at the boys' swank uptown New York apartment - the guests invited are friends and family of the victim, as well as their former teacher Rupert. Events build up to a shocking climax. In true Hitchcock fashion, the tense, edgy script provides a taut, entertaining and nail-biting piece of theatre. 



Ideal for celebrating the start of the festive season, this play will have you sitting on the edge of your seat.  

Performances
Friday 29 & Saturday 30 November 2013
Thursday 5, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 December 2013
Weeknights at 20:00, Saturdays 14:30 and 18:30

Tickets
Matinées and Thursday evening R60 (R50 Theatre Club),
other evenings R70 (R60 Theatre Club). 


Bookings
Contact (021) 788 1898 (o/h) or email Masque Theatre Bookings

Call To Audition: "Flat Spin" for Muizenberg Dramatic Society - a farce, directed by Wendy Goddard

18/11/2013

 
Audition

‘FLAT SPIN’
A comedic farce by Derek S. Royle.

Directed by Wendy Goddard

for Muizenberg Dramatic Society
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DATE:     Wednesday 27 November
TIME:     19:30
VENUE: Rendezvous (Old Zandvlei Bowling Club), 
7 Promenade Road, Muizenberg
PRODUCTION DATES:  14-22 March 2014, at the Masque Theatre, Muizenberg.
ENQUIRIES:  Email Wendy Goddard or contact 083 414 7003
Rehearsals start Saturday 7 December. There will be a break from 19 December to 13 January.  Rehearsals will be on Mondays and Wednesdays from 19:30 to 22:00, and Saturdays from 14:30 to 17:00

SYNOPSIS:
The combination of a mouse, an aspirant model, an incompetent electrician, an Italian film director who can’t speak English and a walk-in cupboard make for hilarious situations which will leave the audience gasping for breath.  

Mistaken identities and cover-ups abound in this uproariously funny farce revolving around the frantic efforts of a young couple to keep their marriage secret so that she can take a much needed job.

‘Flat Spin’ is classic British farce at its best - good, old-fashioned, fun entertainment.



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