Ou Blare

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Ou Blare (Afrikaans for "Old Biddies", literally "Old Leaves") is a comedy play for three women written by Leon Kruger.

Subject

Three middle-aged ladies, good friends for many years, get together to recharge their batteries. They are brave, eccentric and also fed-up. In between yoga and sips they vent about car guards, reed thin mannequins, head docters and thongs.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2012: Premiered at the Woordfees 2012, first in the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and then in the Little Libertas Theatre in Stellenbosch, directed by Leon Kruger, with Elsabé Daneel, Susanne Beyers and Joanie Combrink.

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