PlayThings is a monthly experimental space for performers of any kind to share and showcase their work.
This month's theme is SPRING FLING! It’s all about new beginnings, fresh starts, weird flings, jumps forward, helical metal coils that can be pressed or pulled but return to its original shape. We’ll be exploring all this and more with a captivating lineup of performers, on Sunday 15th of September at 18:00.
Poet and writer, Lisa Julie, is headlining the show. A Mellon Mays Fellow with an MA in Creative Writing, Lisa is also a member of The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective. Her featured reading, Let This Be Enough, explores the speaker's resolute desire to deepen their roots, honoring community, matriarchal love, and the natural landscapes of the Cape—mountains, sea, wind, and the stories that shape our existence.
Ella van der Riet-Field opens the evening with No Body No Crime, a traditional Japanese kamishibai that unravels a mysterious disappearance through a unique visual narrative. Samantha Carlisle presents Messy, a one-woman play that humorously navigates her personal journey through sex and intimacy, reflecting on growth and self-discovery. Nathan Levinrad offers an extract of Now We’re Slamming Doors, his one-man show in development, examining family habits and inherited anger with a blend of insight and humor.
Yaaseen Barnes will delight with New Thoughts, a stand-up comedy set filled with unpolished and spontaneous musings. Melusi Molefe performs Psycho, a physical theatre piece showcasing a mad scientist's dramatic encounter with a defiant victim through innovative movement. Zachary Esau presents a staged reading of A Visit to Cancelled Inc, a satirical exploration of cancel culture. Julia Daniels offers Bodrum, a reflective prose piece about her transformative experience in Turkey. And lastly, a staged reading of Cailyb Prinsloo’s Styx Sportsbar, a play set in an afterlife bar where lost souls and supernatural beings convene, featuring Samantha Carlisle, Ryan Whittal, Christie van Niekerk, Roxy Rose, and Robyn Dunlop.