(Left: Shirley
Johnston & Lynita Crofford)
Authentik Productions is proud to be
touring to The Hilton Arts Festival this month with the theatrical production
of Gertrude Stein and a Companion,
starring Shirley Johnston and Lynita Crofford and directed by Chris Weare.
A tender love story of two eccentric
Americans in Paris.
Way ahead of their time, Gertrude and Alice
abandoned the conservative values of middle class America in the early 1900’s
and found refuge in avant-garde Paris … and in each other. Stein’s renowned salon attracted the artistic
glitterati and literati of the day, including Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne,
Hemingway and other luminaries residing in the bohemian French capital. They
regularly gathered at what became known as the ‘Mecca for the modern-minded’
where they inspired each other to create art, drank often, fought often, fell
in and out of love … and occasionally indulged in Alice’s hash brownies.
The ‘lost generation’
The mystique of the ‘lost generation’ in
Paris, a term coined by Stein, serves as a colourful backdrop to a tender and
unconventional love story which Wells has woven into a captivating theatre
piece.
This play has toured internationally and
has won many awards.
Catch Gertrude
Stein and a Companion at The Hilton Arts Festival in the KwaZulu-Natal on September
13 at 17h30, September 14 at 12h15 and on September 15 at 10h00. Bookings can
be made on the website at
https://www.hiltonfestival.co.za/events/gertrude-stein-and-a-companion/
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