The Hibiscus Rotary Anns need everyone’s support for their fundraiser in aid of South Coast Hospice. The show, `Marico Moon’ features that quirky blonde, Barbie Meyer, aka Oom Schalk Lourens.
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Book a table today for a wonderful evening of entertainment at the Ramsgate Community Centre in Glenmarkie Road on Friday, May 24 at 6pm.
Tickets cost R300 which includes a three-course meal. For details phone Brenda Blumrick at 082 5618461.
· What can people expect from the production of `Marico Moon’?
Don’t come expecting anything other than to listen to fabulously written, witty words by that master short story writer, Herman Charles Bosman.
His stories are funny, profoundly human and filled with irony – so perhaps expect a giggle or two. There are some well-known tales in this compilation, including `The Veld Maiden’ and `The Love Potion’ as well as a taste of his delicious poetry. His more well-known short stories are usually written and put into the mouth of narrator Oom Schalk Lourens, a wonderfully wise and simple Boer. One sees the bushveld and the colourful characters of the Marico through his eyes.
· This is the sixth play you have compiled on Herman Charles Bosman and his short stories – why him?
I simply love his wit and his style of writing. There is nothing more wonderful and more captivating than a good story well told.
Storytelling is literally as old as mankind – a wonderful tradition that allows you to create your own pictures in your mind. Once you start on his stories, you tend to get hooked.
· You’re an English woman playing an Afrikaans man– does it work?
I would like to believe so. I think the fact that I specifically don’t try to hide the fact that I am a woman is a fresh and contemporary take on his work. My gestures, accents and conversation I hope are believable and man-like – thanks to my tenacious and rather fierce director.
· Is it difficult to play a man?
Absolutely. I remember vividly what my wonderful and rather stern director, Bets Basson, said to me in my very first rehearsals over nine years ago. After I had given, what I thought, was a wonderful rendition of Oom Schalk drinking mampoer at a party. She said to me “Barb, what are you trying to do? Are you trying to be a fairy – or a Boer man, ‘cos to me it looks like the first?” I was mortified. Needless to say, she managed single-handedly to ‘ruk me reg’ so to speak. And for some bizarre reason, it’s rather liberating to know how it feels to sit, speak, spit and speak like a Boer.
· How would you like people to respond to your show?
With a wonderful memory of a gorgeous evening out of pure entertainment and storytelling. Secondly, a giggle at how human we all are and perhaps the realisation that all people, no matter who we are, in which century we live, what we believe – are so very similar! And lastly, a little appreciation of Bosman’s incredible writing talent. (And if you’re inspired to read his stories – well that would just be the best compliment ever!).
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