Hit show ‘Sweetie Darling’ plays in Hillcrest
Booking is through Computicket.
DON’T miss Sweetie Darling, an acclaimed one-man stage comedy by multiple award-winning playwright-director, Clinton Marius, starring Durban actor, Bongani Mbatha, at the Festival in the Hills 2016 on Saturday, 27 August.
Sweetie Darling is a romantic comedy about a young man who goes all out to prove himself. While he sets up a picnic in the park for his sweetheart, he recounts the ups and downs of his journey to happiness. As he finds himself, and love, he also finds his path to spiritual growth.
Appraising the production’s debut performance in January 2016 at Durban’s Musho! Festival (where it won the coveted Suliman Family Trust award for the best production on the festival, as well as a judges’ award), Gisele Turner wrote in her review for Going Places: “Performed with heart and soul by Bongani Mbatha, this tragicomic love story held the audience enthralled. The combination of Marius’s gift for telling an engaging story and Mbatha’s gift for sincere characterisation makes Sweetie Darling a winner… filled with ‘ah’ moments that have real emotional content.”
The production went on to score a hit at the Hexagon Theatre’s Mini Festival in Pietermaritzburg in February, and played on the 2016 National Arts Festival Fringe in Grahamstown, and the University of the Witwatersrand’s 969 Festival in Johannesburg, prior to its Durban season at The Playhouse Loft Theatre in July.
The show will play in Curro HCA’s Media Hall in Hillcrest at 9.45am on Saturday, 27 August. Booking is through Computicket on 0861 915 8000 or online at www.computicket.com.
