Showing posts with label Shaggy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shaggy. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Monday, September 13, 2010
The Bring and Braai in A Look Away
"Pablo Picasso once said: 'Give me a museum and I'll fill it.' I'd like the class to think about that for a moment. Isn't it rare today to find an artist who is able to confront his body issues in such a frank manner? Not for Picasso, the existential cop-outs of the crash diet, the corset of Photoshop touch-ups. Instead he declared: 'This is me. Deal with it."
The Bring and Braai: another Shaggy short story by Pravasan Pillay and Anton Krueger
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Review of Shaggy by Shika Budhoo
A comedy and social commentary piece that runs like a pair of freshly laddered stockings…once you’re in it, there’s no going back!
Shaggy is a monologue play on the Fringe of the National Arts Festival. With six parts with two performers alternating pieces, it’s a comedy piece that runs like a pair of freshly laddered stockings. Once you’re in it, there’s no going back. The six pieces are completely different in tone, plot and subject matter with interesting but strange characters that interact with their stories in repeated heightened moments. If a linking theme through the monologues is present, I think it would be different for each audience member, depending on what appealed and stood out to individuals. For me the theme is trying times, because the characters presented are all individuals with trying situations.
The piece is directed by Roshnee Guptar and the script, which is by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay, requires high attention from audiences in order to follow the threads that carry through the individual pieces from beginning to end. The monologues are written with suggestive text which opens the mind’s imagination and the eyes of those who always see below the surface. The two performers fill the stage with large performances - necessary, I think, for a script such as this. The scripts operate differently from monologue to monologue with a variety of oddball characters who reveal hilarious truths about humanity and the systems that operate within it.
At Shaggy you will come into contact with the following oddball personalities and cranky situations:: Part one: a female marketing officer of a baked bean factory, holds a meeting with her staff about her new marketing strategy; her presentation becomes a confusion of analogies for a reluctant staff that leave the bubbly marketing officer despondent and hurt. Part two: a peculiar inventor with strange boundaries and a strange sense of humour pitches an invention (his only one - for now!) to a chairperson of a big firm. Part three: an SABC female representative declares the problems with the programming budgets for the year and in this sequence she suggests some eccentric proposals to increase programming at zero cost.
Part four: Pete, an old man living alone in his home for 18 years, tells the stories of the frustrations of performers in the arts of juggling and especially Balloon Art. Part five: Sally, a Cambodian orphan, now living in South Africa wins the Small Business Person of the Year Award and explains her journey at the award ceremony. Part Six: I call it the ‘Military Dance’ monologue (for obvious reasons when you watch the show) it touched on the proposition of out-of-work actors to pursue careers in the army to bring future prospects of fame, after a war experience.
The show is an all-round success in presentation and script. A funny and entertaining piece of theatre, that is well performed and constantly keeps the cogs of the mind turning and churning. I love the South Africanisms and unique perspectives explored. Performers Zanne Solomon and Tristan Jacobs did an amazing job of changing between characters and precisely portraying the quirks and peculiarities of the characters in the rich script. The words sometimes complex in construction flowed out their mouths smoothly with high effect. Shaggy is running at the Drill Hall during festival 2010. – Shika Budhoo
Shaggy is a monologue play on the Fringe of the National Arts Festival. With six parts with two performers alternating pieces, it’s a comedy piece that runs like a pair of freshly laddered stockings. Once you’re in it, there’s no going back. The six pieces are completely different in tone, plot and subject matter with interesting but strange characters that interact with their stories in repeated heightened moments. If a linking theme through the monologues is present, I think it would be different for each audience member, depending on what appealed and stood out to individuals. For me the theme is trying times, because the characters presented are all individuals with trying situations.
The piece is directed by Roshnee Guptar and the script, which is by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay, requires high attention from audiences in order to follow the threads that carry through the individual pieces from beginning to end. The monologues are written with suggestive text which opens the mind’s imagination and the eyes of those who always see below the surface. The two performers fill the stage with large performances - necessary, I think, for a script such as this. The scripts operate differently from monologue to monologue with a variety of oddball characters who reveal hilarious truths about humanity and the systems that operate within it.
At Shaggy you will come into contact with the following oddball personalities and cranky situations:: Part one: a female marketing officer of a baked bean factory, holds a meeting with her staff about her new marketing strategy; her presentation becomes a confusion of analogies for a reluctant staff that leave the bubbly marketing officer despondent and hurt. Part two: a peculiar inventor with strange boundaries and a strange sense of humour pitches an invention (his only one - for now!) to a chairperson of a big firm. Part three: an SABC female representative declares the problems with the programming budgets for the year and in this sequence she suggests some eccentric proposals to increase programming at zero cost.
Part four: Pete, an old man living alone in his home for 18 years, tells the stories of the frustrations of performers in the arts of juggling and especially Balloon Art. Part five: Sally, a Cambodian orphan, now living in South Africa wins the Small Business Person of the Year Award and explains her journey at the award ceremony. Part Six: I call it the ‘Military Dance’ monologue (for obvious reasons when you watch the show) it touched on the proposition of out-of-work actors to pursue careers in the army to bring future prospects of fame, after a war experience.
The show is an all-round success in presentation and script. A funny and entertaining piece of theatre, that is well performed and constantly keeps the cogs of the mind turning and churning. I love the South Africanisms and unique perspectives explored. Performers Zanne Solomon and Tristan Jacobs did an amazing job of changing between characters and precisely portraying the quirks and peculiarities of the characters in the rich script. The words sometimes complex in construction flowed out their mouths smoothly with high effect. Shaggy is running at the Drill Hall during festival 2010. – Shika Budhoo
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Shaggy on CueTv
Shaggy, written by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay showcases six monologues starring Rhodes University drama graduates, Tristan Jacobs and Zanne Solomon. The well crafted monologues poke fun at contemporary South African issues and characters. Directed by Rhodes University graduate, Roshnee Guptar, Shaggy promises to entertain. In this insert we spend some time with the cast as they prepare for the opening night. Producers: Kyla Herrmannsen and Pumelela Nqelenga.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Shaggy
SHAGGY
Strikes like a mint scented sledgehammer.
Written by Anton Krueger & Pravasan Pillay
Directed by Roshnee Guptar
Assistant Director - Nicolene Badenhorst
Featuring Zanne Solomon & Tristan Jacobs
Stage Womanager: Amy Wilson
Make-up & Costume: Michelle du Plessis
Poster & Flyer Design: Jenny Kellerman Pillay
All photos by Krista Arriëns
DRILL HALL
20 June 21:00
21 June 11:00
22 June 22:30
23 June 13:00
25 June 13:30
26 June 20:00
27 June 12:00
Tickets: R50 Students: R42 Friends: R42
1st Performance: R40 Duration: 55mins Ages: PG (L)
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Shaggy
SHAGGY
Strikes like a mint scented sledgehammer.
Written by Anton Krueger & Pravasan Pillay
Directed by Roshnee Guptar
Assistant Director - Nicolene Badenhorst
Featuring Zanne Solomon & Tristan Jacobs
Stage Womanager: Amy Wilson
Make-up & Costume: Michelle du Plessis
Poster & Flyer Design: Jenny Kellerman Pillay
All photos by Krista Arriëns
DRILL HALL
20 June 21:00
21 June 11:00
22 June 22:30
23 June 13:00
25 June 13:30
26 June 20:00
27 June 12:00
Tickets: R50 Students: R42 Friends: R42
1st Performance: R40 Duration: 55mins Ages: PG (L)
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Shaggy
Shaggy
Don't miss the funniest show at this year's Grahamstown National Arts Festival.
Six shaggy stories with Zanne Solomon and Tristan Jacobs.
Written by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay
Directed by Roshnee Guptar
See it live in Grahamstown, 20-27 June 2010 - check poster for details.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Shaggy
Shaggy
Don't miss the funniest show at this year's Grahamstown National Arts Festival.
Six shaggy stories with Zanne Solomon and Tristan Jacobs.
Written by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay
Directed by Roshnee Guptar
See it live in Grahamstown, 20-27 June 2010 - check poster for details.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Shaggy
Shaggy
Don't miss the funniest show at this year's Grahamstown National Arts Festival.
Six shaggy stories with Zanne Solomon and Tristan Jacobs.
Written by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay
Directed by Roshnee Guptar
See it live in Grahamstown, 20-27 June 2010 - check poster for details.
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