Theatre on the Bay - Going to St Ives
I had the previledge to watch Pieter Toerien's Going to St Ives this week at Theatre on the Bay, Camps Bay. I must say, as a man I didn't expect much from an all women cast (maybe I'm too ignorant for my own good), but I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of character these two cast members displayed.
Comic touches brought the dramatic script in perfect balance, taking the audience on a roller coaster ride from light hearted chuckles to tear induced silence.
Fiona Ramsay (from SABC's Hard Copy and Justice for All) and Pamela Nomvete (Generations, Hillside, Muvhango and Hard Copy) were able to bounce well off each other, creating a doorway for the audience to enter their story. Too many times have I sat through comedies or Shakespear and not become part of the show, not being able to identify enough and 'make it mine'.
The script was written by Lee Blessing, the author of the 1988 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-nominated A Walk in the Woods. It brings two women together out of very different backgrounds. The one from an African dictatorship (or 'empire') and the other, a surgeon from St Ives in England. Each had hidden agendas for seeing each other, and in the end they have found what they had been missing in life, in each other. I'm not going to lay out the storyline for you in detail, go and watch!!
Tuesday May 30 to Saturday June 10
Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm
Saturday 10 June at 5:30pm and 8:30pm
Wednesday 7 June at 2:30pm