chatter
The Performing Arts Network of South Africa presents a staged reading of
Chatter
a new comedy by Anton Krueger
directed by Greg Homann
at The Market Theatre Laboratory
20:00 on Monday 29th of October.
Entrance is free.
with: Wayne van Rooyen, Bryan van Niekerk, Leila Mountford, Caryn Davidoff-Katz, Jane Rademeyer & Tiffany Barbazano
Two brothers meet after many years apart. Albert has been living in London for eight years and is returning to South Africa to meet a girl he’s fallen in love with over the internet. Adler, on the other hand, has been getting ahead in the not so new South Africa and his communications company is thriving. In a severe case of mistaken identities, worlds of romance and commerce collide as issues of identity – ethnic, national, and sexual – become increasingly complicated by a series of misunderstandings. Through the rapid criss-cross of interrupted conversations the mayhem gains momentum right up to a frenetic climax.
Anton Krueger has written a number of plays which have been performed by alternative theatre groups in Australia, England, Wales, America, Chile, Venezuela and Monaco. In 2002, his play Living in Strange Lands, about Demitri Tsafendas, was nominated for an FNB Vita award and staged all over South Africa. He is published and represented in America by Playscripts (who also publish David Henry Hwang) and in England by Plays and Musicals, who have recently published his new black comedy about terrorism, Axis.
Greg Homann is a graduate of the Wits School of Arts and completed his MA at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Since returning to South Africa he has directed The Talented Mr Ripley for the Liberty Theatre on the Square and Lord of the Flies for the Market Theatre. He lectures in the Department of Drama at Wits.
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