This multi-award winning play by Juliet Jenkin will have one performance only on 26 October at Con Cowan Theatre on the Bunting Road Campus as part of an all-new Reading Gay season of staged readings.
Capetonian Jade Bowers directs a cast featuring Brenda Devar, Eloise Clasen, newcomer Ashalin Singh and two of UJ’s own, Thabiso Lebitsa and WJ Pretorius. Jenkin’s play is a funny and enchanting tale of the life and untimely death of a boy called Simon. With his best friend, Georgina, Simon falls into the cold bath waters of gayness, race, love, death and growing up in contemporary Cape Town.
The other staged readings in the season are
The Myth of Andrew and Jo (Gideon van Eeden) directed by Motlatji Ditodi (PG16 SNL),
Happy Endings are Extra (Ashraf Johaardien) directed by Neels Clasen (PG SNL),
Dalliances (Pieter Jacobs) directed by Alby Michaels (PG16 SNL) and
Careful (Fiona Coyne) directed by Jacques Bessenger (PG16 L). The season runs from 26 to 30 October.
Proceeds from ticket sales will go to Tru Colors, an organisation which addresses sexual orientation and gender issues and homophobic and transphobic bullying in South African schools. Reading Gay is supported by LIBERATI, UJ’s LGBT student society and Babylon Bar, Gauteng’s premier gay clubbing experience. Readings are each on for one night only at the Con Cowan Theatre located at UJ’s Bunting Road Campus (adjacent to the SABC in Auckland Park).
Tickets are available at R30 for public audiences and R20 for valid student card holders through Computicket. Season tickets at R100 for all five plays are available from the UJ Arts Centre on the Kingsway campus. For further details contact 011 559 3058 or visit
www.uj.ac.za/artscentre