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The Unlikely Secret Agent archiveIt'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.

Cast/Performers

Erika Breytenbach-Marais, De Klerk Oelofse, Wessel Pretorius, Sanda Shandu, Ntlanhla Kutu

Creatives/Company

Author: Paul du Toit
Producer: Unlikely Productions
Director: Paul du Toit
Design(s): Salene Bekker (and wardrobe coordinator), Paul du Toit (AV), Salene Bekker (AV)
Lighting: Lize-Marie Wait
Sound: Jahn Beukes

The Unlikely Secret Agent

The Unlikely Secret Agent (Play) production archive for QTIX code T0851837887. Details of all The Unlikely Secret Agent archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S0695085760

Archive Listings

28 Aug 24
  to
1 Sep 24
Marylebone Theatre
Outer London, Greater London
Performance Details => Venue archive

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