Katrien, a former cabaret star and her husband, Donovan, have been trapped in the mundanity of a small town without dreams for what feels like an eternity. Their empty nest syndrome and old grievances make the days long and the nights silent. When the flamboyant and mysterious Merve unexpectedly arrives from Cape Town and moves into the old house next door with his piano, Katrien and Donovan’s boring routine is turned on its head. Through humour, nostalgia and with brand new music by David Kramer, the characters are confronted with their lost dreams, faltering marriage and the possibility of new hope.

Elzabé Zietsman asked Johann Slabbert to write a cabaret with which she could pay homage to David Kramer’s songs. After Kramer read the script, he suggested that this story and its characters become a “mini-musical” for which he would write the music. And so Katrien, die King en die Kween was born.