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The Road to Mecca

June 2022 Shows

3:00pm

4, 5, 12

7:30pm

4, 9, 10, 14, 15

The Playhouse presents this powerful classic South African Drama. Miss Helen, a senior South African widow, has been working on an overgrown sculpture garden, which is a dream trip to "Mecca". Pastor Marius urges Helen to move to a senior home. However, Elsa, a Cape Town schoolteacher, arrives to encourage Helen in her art.

R110

Seniors (Woc) R100 or R80pp for block bookings (10+ people)

Up & Away

July 2022

1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

The Playhouse Theatre is proud to present it's annual children's production - Up and Away.

This magical tale based on the characters from Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree is coming to life this July in Somerset West.

Written and directed by Carly Beavon, this exciting adventure will take us up and away to magic lands filled with crazy characters and lots of surprises.

Freya, Bailey and Jonah are sent to stay with their aunt in the country. No wifi, no shopping malls, they are sure they will be bored stiff in no time at all. Until Freya discovers a diary filled with magical adventures that all started with the magic tree in the forest next door. What sort of exciting adventures await them?

Join them and their new friends as they discover what magic has been under their noses the whole time.

R80

R70 for block bookings (10+ people)

Playhouse Drama Festival 2022

Festival dates:

1-6 August, 2022

The sixth annual Playhouse Drama Festival will be hosted in August 2022. Co-hosted and managed by Parel Vallei High School this event has become a highlight in the local theatre calendar.

“We look forward to welcoming more and more schools as we have seen the festival grow. We have plays participate and three South African languages and would love to see this diversity grow and increase. Despite the lockdown we had 13 schools enter in 2020,” explains festival co-ordinator and Head of Culture Darryl Spijkers.

Started in 2017 by Annelie van Zyl and Yanou Pienaar, the festival allows youth to express themselves in a real theatre environment and take on the challenge of creating, acting, designing, operating and stage-managing.

The festival will take place at the Playhouse Theatre in Somerset West from 11 – 21 August 2021. The Playhouse Theatre Somerset West is a community based NPO facility known for its high standards in musicals, plays and dance shows.

The festivals’ winning plays over the past 4 years were:

2017 - Kopskoot

2018 – Too Bad

2019 – (V)LUG

2020 - Wentelkind

2021 - Hansie Slim

This year, to accommodate school entering from far and the limitations some schools have placed on their Drama departments – the festival will have both live and digital options and is open to primary and high schools. Schools can enter full-length one act plays, shorter one-person plays or monologues.

Schools can find out more about how to enter or participate by emailing dspijkers@pvallei.co.za

ADMISSION

TBA

Cabaret