Ver in die Wêreld Kittie
Ver in die Wêreld Kittie is a musical by David Kramer
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’s Kanna-winning musical tells the story of Josef Marais and Rosa de Miranda’s success in America and Canada. They became famous there in the 1950s as ballad singers who performed Afrikaans folk songs in English. Kittie Jaftha, a woman who grew up with Josef’s mother in Worcester feels betrayed because she knows Josef learned these songs from her and Koos Heuningbek, a worker on the farm of Koos’s father.
The piece is performed in English and Afrikaans, with surtitles for anyone that doesn’t speak Afrikaans.
STARRING Jenny Stead, André Terblanché, Dean Balie & Rushney Ferguson
MUSICIANS Kerryn Torrance, Ivan Potts & Nick Turner
Kerryn Torrance, Ivan Potts & Nick Turner
Firt performed at the KKNK, where it won a Kanna Award as best musical.