Fun and laughter at the Springs Theatre
A few well-known Afrikaans actors are currently visiting Springs as they feature in the stage production Daa' Gaat die Bruid!
They were seen rehearsing at the NG Springs-Oos Church in Casseldale on Friday.
Frans Swart, from Lefra Productions, says this stage production is an extremely funny play about a young girl’s forthcoming marriage and attitudes towards premarital sex.
It’s the morning of Judy Ackerman’s wedding and her ad agency executive father Malan Ackerman, played by ex-Springs resident Cobus Venter, gets banged on the head.
He awakes to find himself in the company of Polly Playtex, a 1930s Flapper girl straight out of his current advertising campaign.
She is wonderfully played by Springs resident Ana von Achterbergh.
It soon becomes all too clear that no-one else can see or hear her, and when another bump on the head transports Malan back to 1926, the carefully planned wedding preparations disintegrate into chaos as friends and family attempt to lead Malan back to reality and his daughter down the aisle before the newly arrived in-laws abandon the wedding.
Poor Judy is suitably distraught over getting married without her father to give her away at the altar.
It is her many retreats to her bedroom that gives the play its name.
As various characters on the stage cry “Daa’ Gaat die Bruid”, Judy, played by Debré Rossouw, rushes through the inevitable double doors to the safety of her bedroom.
The introduction of the daughter’s prospective father-in-law, Charles Barnard, played by veteran singer Gert van Rooyen, from Cape Town, adds a further complication when Malan imagines that he is a Hollywood film producer.
Edrien Erasmus playing Judy’s mother Ursula Ackerman is more than just a little overwhelmed and has her hands full getting her daughter to the church on time.
Phillru von Achterbergh plays Bobby, Malan’s overbearing personal assistant, who carries much weight and humour to the chaos on stage.
Lieb Bester is splendid as the bewildered grandfather of the bride, Dr Gerhard Pretorius, and his wife Daphne is played by Margo van Rooy.
Frans’ Afrikaans adaption of Ray Clooney and John Chapman’s There Goes the Bride is not to be missed.
Two shows can be seen at the Springs Theatre in Seventh Street, CBD at 6pm on Friday and Saturday.
Tickets available at Computicket on 0861 915 8000.
