POPPIE IN THE DUNES
Deur: Mikayla Joy Brown
Met: Crystal Donna Roberts, Oscar Petersen en Julia Marone
Regie: Iman Isaacs
Taal: Afr/Eng
Venue: NATi Arena
Datum en tyd: 28 April 20:30
Tydsduur: 60 min
Prys: R100
Poppie in the dunes (webtickets.co.za)
’n Ongewone avontuur wat in ’n skeepswrak in die duine van Konkiesbaai afspeel. Poppie is vasbeslote om vir Kaptein met sy vervreemde dogter Phoebe te versoen, in die hoop dat sy siel vrede sal vind. Maar tussen bisarre fabels en verbeeldingryke eskapades deur is dit Poppie wat uiteindelik heling vind.
POPPIE IN THE DUNES
By: Mikayla Joy Brown
With: Crystal Donna Roberts, Oscar Petersen and Julia Marone
Director: Iman Isaacs
Language: Afr/Eng
Venue: NATi Arena
Date and time: 28 April 20:30
Duration: 60 min
Price: R100
Poppie in the dunes (webtickets.co.za)
A quirky adventure that plays out on an old shipwreck in the dunes of Konkiesbaai. Poppie is determined to re-unite Captain with his estranged daughter, Phoebe, in the hope that his soul will heal. But through whimsical fables and imaginative escapades, it becomes Poppie herself who finds healing.
Mikayla Brown is a 23-year-old freelance artist based in Cape Town. She completed her undergraduate drama studies and her honours degree in creative writing at Stellenbosch University. In 2022, a children’s story she wrote was one of the winners in the Nali’bali and Standard Bank Literacy Month Competition. She also wrote and directed her first play Jantjies and the Pearls for the Stellenbosch University’s Première Theatre Festival in 2022. Mikayla has just completed a writer’s internship at Tomas Films. She believes that her whimsical texts offer audiences the freedom to rethink societal flaws in a way that ushers in hope.
