Sneddon show will go on following UKZN strike
Common and Class, was scheduled to perform at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre until 17 February.
PERFORMERS Ian von Memerty and Gino Fabbri are doing a pop-up mini-tour of KZN as they take show Common and Class to the suburbs since their show was closed down by protesting students on Friday last week at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre.
On Friday evening, approximately 200 striking students held an audience of 200 patrons hostage in the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre at UKZN campus during a performance of Ian von Memerty and Gino Fabbri’s comedy show, Common and Class.
In a statement, publicist Illa Thompson of Publicity Matters said: “The students wanted total campus shutdown and objected to the continued operation of campus-based Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre. The students, pounding on the glass doors of the foyer and chanting, demanded that the show stop immediately to avoid anyone being harmed.”
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Thompson said, half way through the show theatre management stopped the performance and kept the audience in the theatre where they waited for approximately 20 minutes.
“We could hear the students outside getting increasingly more vocal and rowdier, so we led the entire audience (including a paraplegic in a wheel chair) downstairs into the safety of the dressing rooms. We put out all the lights in the theatre, blacking it out, and for the next two
hours, we quietly waited for security and police to deal with the situation. Thankfully we had a pro-active policeman in the audience who managed to liaise with what seemed to be a communication spaghetti – and eventually the students were dispersed, and we could lead the audience out,” explained performer Ian von Memerty.
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Common and Class, was scheduled to perform at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre until 17 February. Following this incident, performances have been cancelled at the Sneddon.
New performance dates are:
Wednesday 13, Thursday 14 and Friday 15 February (Kloof Harvest Church at 7.30 pm)
Saturday, 16 February (Roy Couzens Theatre, Westville Boys High at 4pm and 8pm)
Sunday, 17 February (Hilton Theatre, Hilton College at 3pm)
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