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2019: Performed in the updated version at the [[Drama Factory]], Somerset West, directed by [[Ira Blanckenberg]], with [[Paul du Toit]] and [[Sue Diepeveen]]. | 2019: Performed in the updated version at the [[Drama Factory]], Somerset West, directed by [[Ira Blanckenberg]], with [[Paul du Toit]] and [[Sue Diepeveen]]. | ||
Revision as of 06:38, 20 October 2019
Two to Tango is a play for two performers by Mike van Graan ().
Contents
The original text
A political satire about a superficially liberal white couple negotiating post-apartheid challenges, it is described by the author as "a comedy drama about a forty-something, white, superficially liberal, heterosexual couple with two teenage daughters living in, and coming to terms with, post-apartheid South Africa, and more specifically in Cape Town with its historical race divisions" (Mike van Graan Website[1]).
The play was submitted to the 2005 NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing (Comedy) where it was a finalist, and subsequently premiered at the Liberty Theatre on the Square in April 2006
Translations and adaptations
In 2019 an updated version, set a decade later, was created for performance by the Drama Factory, Somerset West,
Performance history in South Africa
2006: Opened at the Liberty Theatre on the Square in April.
2019: Performed in the updated version at the Drama Factory, Somerset West, directed by Ira Blanckenberg, with Paul du Toit and Sue Diepeveen.
Sources
https://mikevangraan.co.za/plays/two-to-tango
The Drama Factory <info@thedramafactory.co.za>
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