DEBUT

R180 (pre-sales) • R160 (Friends of the KKNK) • R200 (at the door)

Afrikaans • Gesin OB • 50 min.

ATKV-Griesselsaal (Langenhoven Road)

Date(s)

4 April 2025, 15:00

5 April 2025, 16:30

6 April 2025, 13:00

Vrou met 27 kinders

WITH Petru Wessels SCRIPT Ludmilla Bollow DIRECTOR Carel Trichardt TRANSLATION Jopie Koen ADAPTATION Petro-Nelise Sollè ORIGINAL TITLE The Woman with 27 Children PUPPET MAKER The Little Marionette Company PRODUCER Petcar Produksies

Vrou met 27 kinders tells the true-life story of a childless couple. The husband, a sculptor, carves a baby out of wood for his wife every year, eventually making her 27 children out of wood. To her, they are not wooden dolls, but children of flesh and blood. After her husband’s death, some of his other sculptures are donated to the town’s museum. The story unfolds when museum workers want to take the woman’s “children” from her too. Universal themes like childlessness, a parent’s love, the love between a man and woman, as well as age, and dementia, are addressed - always against the backdrop of hope and light. Petru Wessels was seen in this same play at the KKNK in 1996.

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