Pic: Daisy Spencer and Bryan Hiles)Watch Out!!!! There’s a twelve storey granny on the loose and she is heading to the Catalina Theatre over the school holidays!
Directed, adapted and designed by Neil Coppen, Marvellous Mixtures inspired by Roald Dahl’s hugely popular children’s book George’s Marvellous Medicine is now narrated by two local (and long suffering) farm chickens and is set on a desolate Karoo farm.
This madcap piece of family entertainment combines award-winning playwright and director Neil Coppen’s love for physical theatre, puppetry and magic. Marvellous Mixtures was first performed eight years ago (with Neil Coppen and Kasia Stempowski) and played to capacity houses at festivals and theatres around the country. This time around it is being performed by two much-loved performers, Bryan Hiles and Daisy Spencer.
Marvellous Mixtures follows the misadventures of mischievous Matthew Pampoenpip who sets out to solve his foul-tempered Granny (Ouma Lemoenlippe) “slug munching” ways, by brewing her a magical medicine that will cure her for good. Of course, things don’t go quite as young Matthew had planned when Ouma begins to sky rocket through the farm house roof.
Follow Matthew on this magical, whacky and absurd comic adventure as he tries to stop his gargantuan granny (Godzilla with false teeth) from embarking on a catastrophic rampage.
A fun show for children and adults of all ages, Marvellous Mixtures runs at the Catalina Theatre from March 27 to April 11. (Running time 50 minutes) Tickets R55 with boat ride around the harbour (R40 show only)
To book call Thandeka on 031 305 6889 or email tsibisi@mweb.co.za. Catalina Theatre Tickets are now available online at www.strictlytickets.co.za / 073 725 7381 or at www.catalinatheatre.co.za or www.goingplacesSA.co.za / www.goingplacesSA.com
The Catalina Theatre is still functioning thanks to Rainbow Chicken who supports the venue and National Arts Council and Ethekwini Municipality who support productions.
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