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Get Ready to roll in the aisles with Vettie Vettie
Vettie Vettie, which opens at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre on 7 May 2014, is a play that pokes fun at women’s eternal struggle to shake off those excess kilograms.
With winter around the corner, bringing with it the prospect of bathroom scales heaving under the consequences of indulging in forbidden comfort food, Kosie House of Theatre presents light entertainment in this laugh-a-minute comedy.
It will also be the first time that an Afrikaans theatre production is staged at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre in Fourways.
Vicky (played by Hanna Grobler) is the successful owner of a bookstore in Hatfield, Pretoria. She is single and visibly fat.
When she meets the man of her dreams, Tom Delport (André Lotter), she decides to shed those excess kilos once and for all so she can claim her prince.
Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to lose weight – especially when your one housemate is a gourmet cook and the other likes to remind you of all your previous failed diets! Henri (Tobie Cronjé) has been friends with Vicky long enough to know that her get-thin resolutions won’t last long, and he derives great pleasure from teasing her incessantly about it.
To make matters worse, he isn’t tactful and doesn’t believe in euphemisms – he says exactly what he thinks. James (Luan Jacobs) is a culinary expert who is incapable of making an ordinary meal consisting of rice, meat and potatoes – staple South African fare, in other words. However, he works for Vicky in her bookstore and has a soft spot for her.
Is poor Vicky going to succeed in bowling over the man of her dreams? Vettie Vettie is directed by inimitable theatre veteran André Odendaal. It has been translated by Johan Bernard and adapted by Pierre van Pletzen from My Fat Friend, the hit comedy by Charles Laurence. Vettie Vettie will be performed nationwide.
The first run is at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre from 7 May to 1 June 2014.
Book for this side-splitting comedy at Computicket.
TOUR PROGRAMME
Dates:
7 May – 1 June 2014: Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways
4 June – 21 June 2014: Pieter Toerien’s Theatre on the Bay, Camps Bay
Times: 20:00 and 17:00
