The award-winning production of Tony Jackman’s An Audience With Miss Hobhouse comes to Cape Town’s intimate The Rosebank Theatre for a four-week run from Wednesday August 21 to Sunday September 14.
The production, which won a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in July 2013 and which garnered Lynita Crofford a Fleur du Cap Theatre Award nomination in February, is a one-hander which sees Crofford stepping into the shoes of Emily Hobhouse and a Boer woman, Tant’ Alie.
Hobhouse achieved fame in South Africa and stirred the ire of her own British people by bringing to their attention the dire conditions in which the British were treating Boer prisoners of war – mainly women and children – in concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer War of 1899-1902.
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The play has been described as “a jewel” (Die Burger), while Cue newspaper in Grahamstown wrote that Hobhouse “gives her audience a harrowing description of the atrocities endured by Afrikaans women and children… using masterful juxtapositions of English and Boere perspectives, the production encapsulates the anguish created by Britain’s imperial war”. Ivor Powell in Weekend Argus wrote that “Jackman’s touch is literary, full of restraint and old-school deference, steeped in a barely acknowledged genre of colonially flavoured South African writing that recalls Olive Schreiner, Guy Butler and Patrick Cullinan”.
WHERE: The Rosebank Theatre, 16 Alma Road, Rosebank. is the newest venture from veteran theatre personality Nicholas Ellenbogen. INFO: 072 316 6133.
TICKETS: R100. Book Webtickets
