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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elzab\u00e9 Zietsman asked Johann Slabbert to write a cabaret with which she could pay homage to David Kramer\u2019s songs. After Kramer read the script, he suggested that this story and its characters become a \u201cmini-musical\u201d for which he would write the music. And so Katrien, die King en die Kween<\/em> was born.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Katrien, \u2019n voormalige kabaretster, en haar man, Donovan, is al \u2019n ewigheid vasgevang in die alledaagsheid van \u2019n dorpie sonder drome. Hul le\u00ebnessindroom en ou verwyte maak hul dae lank en hul nagte stil. Wanneer die flambojante en geheimsinnige Merve onverwags uit Kaapstad opdaag en met sy klavier in die ou huis langs hulle intrek, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39],"tags":[],"datum":[10,13,14],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musiek","category-musiekteater","datum-1-april-2025","datum-4-april-2025","datum-5-april-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"datum","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/datum?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}