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Cape Town is in for a treat as Pieter-Dirk Uys bring his "F.A.K. Songs & other Struggle Anthems" to the Fugard Theatre. Uys will star as Bambi Kellermann in a cabaret laced with song and sketch.
With music arranged by Godfrey Johnson and performed by Bambi's Bokkie Band, F.A.K. Songs and Other Struggle Anthems is performed in three languages. The band, led by Johnson on piano, features Heather Roth on flute and sax, Rayelle Goodman on violin, Mac McKenzie on guitar and Hilton Schilder on percussion.
Bambi's story is told in English, while some of the songs are in German and others in Afrikaans. This cabaret is not for the faint-hearted. It unites the acrid stench of the old Weimar Republic of the 1930s and the sexy rot of Hamburg 's Reperbahn with the familiar aromas associated with 'ons eie' Voortrekker-camps and braaivleis-orgies.
Not for the squeamish or the proper, this cabaret features songs by Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim, as well as a selection of familiar Afrikaans liedjies from the legendary F.A.K Sangbundel, a songbook of the federation of Afrikaans Cultural organisations, reinvented by Bambi to suit the mood of 2010.
“Uys dons eyelashes, and presidents listen” - Los Angeles Times October 2009
| Date | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| Time | 19:30 for 20:00 |
| Venue | The Fugard, Caledon Street, Cnr of Harrington Street |
| Parking | Secure parking in Harrington Square |
| Cost | R90 per ticket (Payment to be made on the night at theatre) |
| R.S.V.P. | Gloria at 021 683 3990 or headoff@mweb.co.za. Numbers are to be confirmed by 10 September. |
| Payments | Payment to be made on the night at theatre. |
| Numbers are to be confirmed by 10 September. | |
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