Two to Tango

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Two to Tango is a play for two performers by Mike van Graan ().

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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