(Pic: Ben Voss’s alter-ego Beauty Ramapelepele)Beauty Ramapelepele touches down in Durban en route to Grahamstown!
Radio personality, writer and comic sensation Ben Voss is back with his razor-sharp, motormouth alter–ego Beauty Ramapelepele in Bend It Like Beauty at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from June 15.
As the gap between Africa and the west widens, Beauty is torn between the capitalist trappings of western society and the familiar traditions of her home, South Africa. To keep her options open she has strengthened her ANC ties and at the same time applied for the job of ambassador to the United Kingdom in an attempt to fast-track her own immigration. Jacob Zuma is personally having a word with Foreign Affairs in return for a small fee.
In Bend it Like Beauty she seers the colonizer she is trying to impress and skewers the ailing colony she is tired of living in. With vitriolic candour, she dishes out her verdict on her trip to the United Kingdom and what it is like to be a South African abroad.
Bend It Like Beauty runs at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from June 15 to 27. Booking is through Computicket. The production can be seen on the Fringe Programme of the forthcoming National Arts Festival. Click on the NAF advert on this page to link to the full festival experience!
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