Every Beautiful Thing – from the team behind the acclaimed ‘A Girl Called Owl’ – comes a story about two sisters, opening at Alexander Theatre on 14 May.
A play about silence and noise. About waiting. About old habits, blood bonds, miracles and spare parts. A play about the strange, powerful moments that carve into memory like water through sand.
Susan is adopted. Katelyn is her younger sister – the miracle baby. Susan is a lawyer, wife and mother. Katelyn just rolled her car down a mountain. In the hospital, pain meds and memory twinkle under fluorescent lights, circling ever closer to the truth.
The story behind the story: Briony always felt that A Girl Called Owl was eerily connected to her own life. As if Jon had written her play (she wasn’t yet cast when he wrote it). She found herself thinking ‘but how does he know?’.
Given the success of the partnership and her thirst to work on something challenging and beautiful again, she commissioned Jon to write a new play loosely inspired by events in her family. Once again, he wrote all kinds of things she hadn’t actually told him. Creepy. This time she asked for a two-hander so that she wouldn’t be so lonely on stage.
WHAT: Every Beautiful Thing
WHO: Written by Jon Keevy | Performed by Briony Horwitz & Jazzara Jaslyn | Directed by Tara Notcutt.
WHERE: Alexander Bar & Café, 76 Strand Street (Corner Loop), Cape Town CBD, 8001
WHEN: 14 – 16 May at 7pm; 18 – 23 May at 7pm TICKET: R90 / R80 when prepaid and can be booked here
INFO: Briony Horwitz on brionydi@gmail.com or 072 172 0950 Facebook Twitter
