Market Lab: COCO does Jokile and the Miracles
I love the theatre. Especially good theatre where your mind leaves your body, disconnecting from the present and zooming into the drama… There is some great theatre around at the moment – go and escape…
While the sexy shocker CARDS is on at the Market theatre till the 5 June, a very special one man show is on at the Market Lab tonight and tomorrow only (Fri…
and Sat 20th and 21st May).
We highly recommend it.
JOKILE AND THE MIRACLES is performed by the versatile and lovable COCO MERCKEL, a talented thespian whose ability to switch seamlessly between an array of characters is mind-blowing.
The show consists of four short stories, all told by Coco – [duh – its a one-man play! TGIF]. The stories are adaptations of Dario FO’s MISTERO BUFFO and when I say adaptations, I am refering to the wonderful mix of Kasiology, Zulu Tswana, Tsotsi taal and Westbury special that mix up this story and make it both South Africanised and bloody funny too.
The stories are from the middle ages, they took me back to my innocent and easy days of RELIGION lessons in primary and Sunday school… some are much-loved Bible stories and others were ‘found by various researchers and scholars in old libraries around Italy which were then compiled and dramatised the Italian playwright, director and performer Darius FO – the 1997 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. ‘
Merckel takes a hold of these stories and twists them up with his own brand of humour and style, giving them a light, accessible and truly enjoyable feel.
He does an incredible job – one man shows are not easy and he keeps you engaged for an hour and a half… What a memory! Towards the end of the fourth story we could tell he was tiring a little but then it all ended and we wished he could go on.
If you have nothing to do today or tomorrow – get your 30 sheckels out and go back in time with COCO MERCKEL.
JOKILE AND THE MIRACLES
MARKET LAB
Market Theatre Precinct
Newtown Precinct
Fri 20th Sat 21st May ONLY
R30 at the door.
7:30pm
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