A GREEN NUMBER

Robert-Ian Caldwell and Jeff Judge will present their musical revue A Green Numberat The Hexagon Dive in Pietermaritzburg on November 10 and 11, offering another collection of inconsequential sketches: mainly musical, with the occasional monologue.

Their description of the show reads thus: “Caldwell is on stage, song and sedation: Judge does keys, saxophone and vocals. The tunes are borrowed and are well-known. The lyrics are largely original: although successive SA governments have made script-writing a cinch. Experience decomposed Broadway musicals; politicians new and old; Dalai diversions; name changes, polluted rivers and speedy locomotives; cats and dogs, nightingales and white-ants; applied tartan dyslexia; and a health-care section that should relieve depression.”

Robert-Iain Caldwell has never run a Comrades Marathon (Judge has one under his belt) - but July's Festival was his 10th Grahamstown Festival Fringe appearance over some 25 years: hence the title of the show, A Green Number.

"These two entertainers treat their audience to a range of great pieces, with clever original lyrics and a good measure of mirth. It's hard to write this, I can't see through the tears of laughter. Good music, good show!" Lee-Ann Knowles, Cue (NAF daily newspaper), July 3.

A Green Number has two performances at the Hexagon Dive on the UKZN Pietermaritzburg campus on November 10 and 11 at 19h00 for 19h30. Tickets R60 (R55pp for table of 10). Bring your own picnic, but no drinks as there is a cash bar. Bookings on email: hexagon@ukzn.ac.za or on 033 260 5537.