Stellar cast take on ‘Scenes from an Execution’
AFTER her phenomenal double Fleur du Cap-nominated performances in A Doll’s House and The Inconvenience of Wings last year, Jennifer Steyn returns to the Baxter stage to star as the remarkable anti-heroine, Galactia, in Howard Barker’s Scenes from an Execution, at the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio from March 30 to April 22 at 7.30pm, and a matinee on April 1 at 2.30pm.
Clare Stopford directs a stellar cast made up of theatre favourites Steyn, along with Graham Hopkins (The Mother, Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood) and Nicky Rebelo (West Side Story, The Kreutzer Sonata) and a dynamic ensemble of young actors Khathutshelo Ramabulana (Black Dog/Inj`emnyama, Letters To Madiba), Cleo Raatus (The Fall, District Six – Kanala), Elizabeth Akudugu (Twelfth Night, Have you Seen Zandile?), Phoebe Ritchie (Cincinnati, The Seagull) and Lauren Blackwell (Girl in The Yellow Dress, Cincinnati).
Except for Steyn, Hopkins and Ramabulana, the rest of the cast play multiple characters to bring the thrilling story to life.
Set design is by Patrick Curtis, costume design by Leigh Bishop, and set-and props construction by Nick Mayer.
The story revolves around Galactia, an impossibly transgressive artist, who is commissioned by the Venetian republic to create a painting celebrating the triumph of Venice at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. What emerges in her uncompromising pursuit of truth, is the ugliness of slaughter.
Scenes from an Execution previews from March 30 to April 3, opens on April 4 and runs until April 22 at 7.30pm with a matinee on Saturday, April 1 at 2.30pm. Ticket prices are R130 (previews and matinees), R140 (Mondays to Thursdays) and R160 (Fridays and Saturdays).
For discounted corporate, schools or block-bookings, charities or fundraisers, contact Sharon at 021 680 3962, e-mail sharon.ward@ uct.ac.za or Carmen at 021 680 3993, e-mail carmen.kearns@uct.ac.za.