Weekend Argus (Saturday Edition)
ON THE BOARDS
Peppa Pig Live. The theatre show – based on the award-winning television series – is touring South Africa for the first time, and is on at Cape Town International Convention Centre from April 6 to 8.
The show pivots on Peppa – a four-year-old pig, her family and friends. Tickets are R199 to R399. Book at www.computicket.com. VIP Meet & Greet packages on offer and include best seats in the house, party after the show, photo opp with Peppa and a gift.
Pinocchio. Get the small fry to see The Lilliput Children’s Theatre Company performing Pinocchio at the Nassau Theatre at Groote Schuur High School, Palmyra Road in Newlands, from Monday until April 7, at 10am.
The production features performers from across the Cape: Desle McConney as Jiminy Cricket, Dean van der Ventel as the Fox, Elton John Duffy as Geppetto, Buddy-Bo Butler (Strandfontein) as the Blue
Fairy and Marli van der Merwe (Durbanville) as Pinocchio. Tickets R80/Computicket 0861 915 8000/ www.computicket.com
A Woman Alone and Other Female Parts. The two short, satirical plays by Italian playwright Dario Fo are presented at The Drama Factory in Somerset West. Direction is by Margot Wood for Anex Theatre Productions, an independent Cape Town theatre company.
Tickets are R90 online and
R110 at the door. See www. thedramafactory.co.za/show/ Femaleparts2018 or call
073 215 2290.
Robyn Cohen Twitter: @ TheCapeRobyn