UPDATE: 7 DECEMBER 2020: ALL PERFORMANCES AT THE BAXTER SUSPENDED FROM 19 DECEMBER 2020 UNTIL END JANUARY 2021.
Chantal Stanfield and director Megan Furniss return with the sequel to their uniquely South African comedy From Koe’siestes To Kneidlach with the highly-anticipated follow-up From Koe’siestes To Kneidlach – With Kids!
This ‘kosher comedy’ will run at the Baxter Theatre’s Golden Arrow Studio from 22 December 2020 until 9 January 2021.
This show follows the bizarre, comedic and true story of what happens when a girl from the Cape Flats falls in love with a Jew-ish boy from Joburg’s East Rand! This ‘goy’ (a sometimes unflattering Yiddish word used to describe non-Jews) finds herself smack-bang in the middle of a culture and heritage that is so vastly different to her own, while she shares and celebrates her very colourful background too.
Off into the shabbat sunset
From Koe’siestes To Kneidlach – With Kids! picks up a few years after the mixed-race-mixed-everything happy couple get married and ride off into the shabbat sunset. Now there’s a ‘beige’ baby on the way with a myriad of cultural, religious and familial issues to navigate – the minefield of beautiful names and their unfortunate companion nicknames from the Flats, a proud bossiekop (curly-kinky hair) dealing with her child’s gladde hare (very straight hair), celebrating Christmas and Hannukah while explaining barakat to the Jewish in-laws, and how to avoid getting mistaken for the nanny! Along the way we meet the omnipresent voice of her mother, her gay best friend and nosy neighbours, amongst others.
From Koe’siestes To Kneidlach – With Kids! is written and performed by Chantal Stanfield with direction by Megan Furniss. Show music is compiled by RJ Benjamin.
What: From Koe’siestes To Kneidlach – With Kids!
Where and when: Baxter Theatre’s Golden Arrow Studio from 22 December 2020 until 9 January 2021
Tickets: Webtickets
Info: Covid-19 protocols are observed at the Baxter Theatre Complex. Patrons are advised to arrive an hour earlier for contact-tracing procedures and to wear a mask at all times.
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