‘Sensational’ gay play comes to Joburg
BRAAMFONTEIN - Following its Cape Town premiere earlier this year, Daniel Dercksen's The Beauty of Incomplete Things has finally made its way to Joburg.
The play, featuring Rowan Studti, Wojtek Lipinski and Andre Lombard, tells the story of three men whose lives unite on a heartbreaking journey filled with pathos, humour and candid revelations.
“In the play, Tommy (Studti), a studly trophy masseur, becomes a pawn between two conflicted lovers; David (Lipinski), a flamboyant and dramatic diva-worshipper, and Steve (Lombard), a renowned actor,” said publicist Di Sparks.
David sneaks Tommy off to his cabin in the middle of the woods for his birthday weekend, but the intimate, heated birthday celebration is interrupted when Steve gatecrashes the private party.
“Fantasy and reality collide head-on in their brutal quest to find happiness,” said Sparks.
“The truth surfaces and strips them bare, ultimately setting them free and releasing them from their humanity.”
Dercksen described the play as “an emotional journey of love, wrath and redemption” in which three rivals discover that beauty lies in incomplete things.
“What happens when you mix business and pleasure? What happens if obsessive love turns nasty? These questions unravel during the tense and heartbreaking journey that candidly explores the dark abyss of male sexuality at its most vulnerable,” he said.
“We sometimes look down on those who live a life different to our own, but there definitely lies beauty and hope in incomplete things.”
The play forms the second part of the playwright’s trilogy that was launched in 1998 with Yes, Masseur, and will conclude with X-Change in 2015.
Inspired by real events, the play is dedicated to the memory of the young men who were executed at a male-to-male massage parlour in Cape Town in 2004.
The Beauty of Incomplete Things will run from 17 July until 1 August at The Fringe, Joburg Theatre, corner of Simmonds and Stiemens streets, Braamfontein.
The play carries an age restriction of 16.
Details: 0861 670 670; www.joburgtheatre.com; www.writingstudio.co.za
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