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(Detail from the poster: Clinton Small and Darren King)
Start the year off with THINSKIN’s
production of Callum’s Will opening
on January 29 at Seabrooke’s Theatre. Written and directed by Janna
Ramos-Violante it stars Darren King and Clinton Small.
The beautiful and intimate story of Callum’s Will takes the audience on an
almost filmic experience as the unlikely relationship of the two male
characters evolves from an awkward first encounter to a deep and lasting
friendship which neither expects nor understands. Sometimes in life friendships
choose us. People enter our lives for the wrong reasons but at exactly the
right moment to save us from ourselves.
Set in London’s early 90’s, the two
characters come from completely different backgrounds. Callum is a cultured man
in his mid-40’s, an ex-ballet dancer whose career was cut short by a tragic
accident which has left him a paraplegic and in a wheel chair. Disconnected
from his “friends” and previous life, he is unable to cope and forced to seek
assistance in the unlikely form of Will.
Will – a boy in his mid-20’s from the wrong
side of the tracks - is the result of growing up in mass unemployment and a
country of state benefits. Surrounded by friends who have accepted their lot in
life, Will, however, is not bereft of hope and dreams, something his eccentric,
late mother left as a seed which is about to germinate.
The story takes the audience on a journey
of laughter and sometimes tears but essentially full of hope as it offers a
quiet window into the tiny intricacies of human behaviour and interaction which
we never really get the opportunity to observe.
Callum’s
Will runs at Seabrooke’s Theatre at DHS from January
29 to February 10 at 19h30 (no shows on Mondays). Tickets R80 booked through 083
250 2690.
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