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Performance

VenueMarylebone Theatre
Also: Rudolph Steiner House
TownOuter London
CountyGreater London
From28th August 2024
To1st September 2024
When19:30. Sat Mat 14:30. Sun 14:30
Marylebone Theatre (V186147921)
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  • Date of change: 1 Aug 24 - T0851837887

The Unlikely Secret Agent

Work:: The Unlikely Secret Agent (S0695085760)

It's 1963, South Africa. The country is on a knife edge. Political protest, sabotage and violence engulfs the country. The Apartheid government, under Hendrik Verwoerd, brutally suppresses resistance. Under the State of Emergency, the feared Special Branch of the police arrest anyone suspected of being involved in underground activities. Eleanor, an unassuming, young single mother is arrested at Griggs Bookstore where she works in Durban and taken for questioning. The police are on the hunt for her lover, the notorious "terrorist", Red Ronnie Kasrils. She finds herself detained under the 90-day detention act and brutally interrogated. They will "break her or hang her". Ronnie is wanted for his involvement in a string of sabotage bombings of electricity pylons, the Durban post office and the offices of the Special Branch. There is no point in her resisting, the police "know everything". But do they really? Eleanor is keeping a secret. She is a clandestine agent for the Underground ANC. But she must protect her comrades and Ronnie. She makes the daring decision to fake a nervous breakdown in order to be transferred to a psychiatric institution. From there, she begins to plot her escape.
Author Paul du Toit

Production:: (T0851837887)

Producer Unlikely Productions
Director Paul du Toit
Design Salene Bekker (and wardrobe coordinator)
Lighting Lize-Marie Wait
Sound Jahn Beukes
Design Paul du Toit (AV)
Design Salene Bekker (AV)
Performer Erika Breytenbach-Marais
Performer De Klerk Oelofse
Performer Wessel Pretorius
Performer Sanda Shandu
Performer Ntlanhla Kutu

Listing:: L0886876005




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