A GREEN NUMBER

This evening, the Schlesinger Theatre at Michaelhouse presents A Green Number with “Doc” Robert-Ian Caldwell and Jeff Judge in another collection of inconsequential sketches: mainly musical, with the occasional monologue. Caldwell is on stage, song and sedation: Judge does keys, saxophone and vocals.

“The tunes are borrowed and well-known,” says the duo. “The lyrics are largely original: although successive South African governments have made scriptwriting a cinch. Experience Malema’s domestic policy (should the performance be re-titled A White Number?), 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 relieves depression.”

Caldwell has never run a Comrades Marathon (Judge has one under his belt) – but the 2011 National Arts Festival was his 10th Grahamstown Festival Fringe appearance, over some 25 years, hence the title of the show, A Green Number.

A Green Number premiered in the Midlands in June 2011 en route to the Grahamstown Festival and returned to tour many areas in KZN.

The performance takes place tonight (May 11) at 19h00 in the Centenary Centre at Michaelhouse. Tickets R60 booked through 033 234 1314 or email: theatre@michaelhouse.org Bring your own picnic and there will be a cash bar.