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WHAT
Call Us Crazy, a three- person play riddled with the kind of wink wink satire that we South Africans enjoy so much
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
Josias Dos Moleele
STARRING
Sello Sebotsane, who has appeared in shows like Stokvel, Jock of the Bushveld and more recently Mzanzi Magic’s Broken Vows. TV presenter, MC for government events, the Kasi Mlungu in the King Pie TV adverts, Marietjie Bothma, and Josias Dos Moleele of Rhythm City and Binnelanders fame
WHY WATCH
The world is going to hell in a designer hand basket and we all need a good laugh to distract us
WHERE & WHEN
At Auto & General Theatre on the Square in Sandton until July 6
How we react to films, plays and the arts generally has as much to do with the information our eyes are receiving as it does with the choppy waters of the brain processing it and this play does an amusing job of illuminating that.
On the surface it follows the quixotic of Oompie, a construction worker who dreams of tarring all the roads in the world. Having spent 27 years under the heel of an oppressive employer, Oompie quits to take the helm of his own tar empire. The succulent taste of power does to him what it did to many before him and soon he finds himself resembling the employer he once hated.
Digging beneath the surface Call Us
Crazy could be said to be an allegorical tale of the ANC or Nelson Mandela. It could also be a story about the guilt some successful black South Africans feel in post-apartheid SA.
Perhaps it is about clever manipulative sleights of hand white South Africans used when the boerewors curtain fell and why the majority of them seem so reluctant to learn any indigenous African language.
Hell, some of it may make no sense at all. One thing will be certain is that once you walk out, there will be a lot to talk about over dinner. ● LS