Bouncers the Remix – Supper Theatre in Cape Town
Yet again Dazzla keeps us up to date with theatre in Cape Town…here’s what he thought about the new show at On Broadway that takes us down another promising but dissapointing BIG NIGHT OUT: BOUNCERS
As many of us who have been there know, the weekly weekend all-nighters once provided meaning and some purpose to our lives. All this is aptly captured in Bouncers, directed by Fre…
d Abrahamse the latest dinner-theater show at On Broadway, Cape Town.
Acclaimed actors Heinrich Reisenhofer, Adam Neil, Mark Elderkin and Andrý Weideman, (selected from about 50 who auditioned for the roles) are the tough-guy bouncers who tell us all we need to know about what goes on in a nightclub. Their insights are spot on funny and a painful reminder of the disillusionment that results for many.
The bouncers at times play roles-within-roles illustrating the ritual-like stages of the big night out from the eager girls and lads dollying themselves up in giggly anticipation, to the club mayhem and the inevitable coming down.
I loved the slow motion mime scenes, which captured brilliantly much of the strobe light chaos and disorientation that so often accompanies a big night out today.
Cape Town theatre-goers are in for a treat when On Broadway opens its doors at 18:30 for it first dinner theatre performance of Bouncers on Saturday 20 August.
This is the first full-length play to be staged in this already popular cabaret venue. Having enjoyed huge success when it was first performed at the old On Broadway, Bouncers is again produced for On Broadway by Fred Abrahamse and Charl-Johan Lingenfelder and directed by Fred Abrahamse.
On Broadway, with its unique package of pre-show dinner, bar service throughout, and its location in the heart of the city’s restaurant and club area, is the perfect setting for this production which is described as an outrageous comedy – both a celebration and a warning of the nightmarish vision of the “Club World”.
We’ve all been there, the preparation for the night out, the hopes of meeting someone, desperately trying to have a good time, the inevitable friends egging you on, the booze, the pumping music, the sex (or promise of it !) and then before we know it, it’s 4 am and you’re still alone and a lot worse for wear. The cold grey of morning creeps in, as we sit in some awful eatery (in name only), endeavouring to digest some excuse for food and lukewarm coffee; trying desperately to piece together the fragments of the last 6 to 8 hours and where we lost sight of what was going to be, a good night out.
BOUNCERS is set in a night-club where the bouncers try to shed some light on this story and show us in hilarious detail how the clientele behave before, during and after their visit to the club.
Abrahamse and Lingenfelder have assembled a powerhouse cast of Cape Town’s top young actors who will rip up the boards at On Broadway. Out of the 50 or so actors that auditioned, the coveted four roles will be played by well known director (Joe Barber) and actor Heinrich Reisenhofer, Andrý Weideman (last seen in Antigone at the Baxter and well known to all as Danie in SOS), Mark Elderkin (recently seen as Hamlet In The Secret Love Life of Ophelia) and Adam Neil (last seen in Much Ado About Nothing and as Horatio in Hamlet)
The roles are demanding, to say the least. Each of the four actors plays the part of a bouncer who in turn depicts other young men and women trying to get into the club, in the club or after a night at the club! The roles-within-the-role vary from very drunk lager-lout to night-club tart.
Tickets cost R75 each.
Dinner is served from 18h30, the show begins at 20h30 (if you are only coming for the show you need to be seated by 20h00).
Please take note that due to complaints from a nearby resident regarding the noise level of our shows we are now beginning all our shows at 20h30.
