Dear Friends of The Masque
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After a quiet week at the Masque last week, we are back with a bang this week with A Night with Dame Edna (as portrayed by My Ceri du Preez from the UK) - read all the details below.
Muizenberg Dramatic Society's cast of Akhnaton are rehearsing furiously and having the most incredible time creating ancient Egyptian sets and costumes. Read more about this very interesting historical play, written by Agatha Christie, below.
Remember that delicious meals and desserts are available before the shows and at intervals, and our bar is open! Please make sure you follow us on Facebook and our other social media channels (links at the bottom of this mailer) to keep up to date with all the latest show news.
Wishing you a great week!
With best wishes,
The Masque Theatre Team
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On at the Masque this week:
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A Night with Dame Edna
This week 28 - 29 February in the Main Auditorium
Starring worldwide style icon, megastar, comedian and confidante of The Queen, DAME EDNA EVERIDGE
( As Portrayed by Mr Ceri Dupree)
Shows are at 20h00 on Fri night and at 14h30 and 18h30 on Sunday
Bookings at Computicket here: https://tickets.computicket.com/event/a_night_with_dame_edna/6159870
Renowned for his fantastic impressions of Tina Turner, Cher, The Queen of England, Camilla-Duchess of Cornwall, Joan Collins plus many others, the UK’s premier female impersonator is touring with his most requested impression of the brilliantly funny and well-known Dame Edna Everidge.
Join Dame Edna for a fun evening of stand-up comedy, glamour, glitter and above all else – laughter. Also fabulous frocks, wicked stories, songs and sketches.
Ceri has performed all over the world with his stage shows and has delighted audiences with his comedy and outrageous costumes. His interpretation of Dame Edna has proved one of the most popular and a favourite of the audience. Hence, has put together a whole evening show featuring this great legend of comedy. Ceri is thrilled to be performing in South Africa again especially in Cape Town which is his favourite city and is looking forward to performing at the intimate Masque Theatre in Muizenburg.
You are in for a treat and truly a night to remember.
Dame Edna would love to see you and make laugh, cry and scare the hell out of you - and then she will let you go home!
The show is not suitable for children
Comments:-
“Ceri’s Dame Edna is spot on. Extremely good nights entertainment”
Artslink Magazine
“ He makes a disturbingly convincing Dame Edna”
The Argus-Blackpool
“His Dame Edna is more caustic then the real thing”
Leicester Mercury
“ A sell out for 6 weeks and a standing ovation every night”
Gate 69 Showbar – Cape Town, South Africa
“ I can’t believe how good Ceri is. Just like the real thing”
Entertainments Manager – Emperors Palace Casino, Johannesburg
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Upcoming shows in the main auditorium:
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Akhnaton
13-21 March in the Main Auditorium
Akhnaton is the only non-murder mystery play ever written by Agatha Christie. It is closer to a Shakespearean drama.
The play spans 16 years of the life of pharaoh Amenhotep IV (or Akhnaton/Akhenaten) who lived approximately from 1360 to 1334 BC. Akhnaton is known to be the pharaoh who attempted to change Egyptian religious beliefs from pantheism to monotheism, believing only in one God - Aten, the Sun God. This explains why he changes his name from Amenhotep IV to Akhenaton. In conjunction with his wife, queen Nefertiti, he defies the traditional stiff court rituals and goes as far as leaving Thebes, the capital to build a new capital (New Horizon in the play, Amarna in modern Egyptology). He surrounds himself with artists, sculptors, painters and poets and refuse to use war as a mean to international politics but advocates reason and diplomacy. By doing so he comes into conflict with two of the most influential classes in ancient Egyptian society: the clerics led by the high priest of Amon and the army, led by general Horemheb.
Having only daughters and no son, he is obliged to recognise his son-in-law, Tutankhaton, as his heir. In the meantime, unrest in brewing in Egypt, fanned by the declining revenues from taxes and war on the neighbouring countries and the prohibition of any cult of worship except to Aton. This leads to a conspiracy and his murder. His successor, Tutankhaton, immediately changes his name to Tutankhamon and reinstates pan-theism and the cult of Amon-Ra. This turns out too little too late as he is also murdered at the age of only 19 and replaced by Horemheb who then proceeds with demolishing Akhenaton’s new capital and wiping his and Tutankhamon’s name from Egyptian history.
Akhnaton is a complex personality who means well and strives to establish a world where peace, love and beauty are the highest values but is not politically astute enough to realise his dreams and slowly descends into his own reverie and utopia. He thus alienates himself from his people even further, leading to his death. He is also not the expected athletic warrior but has tendency to corpulence and is very much in touch with his feminine side up to the point that it is suggested that he/they is/are the first document appearance of a non-binary person(s).
Tickets are R100 and can be booked at Computicket at https://tickets.computicket.com/event/akhnaton/7133873 or by calling the Masque at 021 788 1898
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