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Cissie at Baxter Theatre Centre

Event: Cissie at Baxter Theatre Centre
Date: July 9th until 26th 2008

Guests staying at luxury Cape Town hotel the Twelve Apostles may wish to visit the Baxter Theatre this summer, as it hosts award-winning South African playwright Nadia Davids' new play, Cissie.

Debuting in Cape Town for two weeks only, between July 9th and 26th, the event promises to be a special occasion.

Cissie tells the tale of Cape Town activist Cissie Gool and her life from childhood to her death in 1963.

Focussing on her "dynamic" social and political home as a child to her years of being an acclaimed public speaker, Cissie also features Gool's marriage and her struggles against colonialism and apartheid.

The cast of nine actors includes Rehane Abrahams as the storyteller and Cissie, Quanita Adams, Vaneshran Arumugam, Charlton George, Thembi Mtshali-Jones, Chan Marti, Bo Petersen, Andre Samuels and Andre Weideman.

Using techniques such as shadow, monologue, poetry and music and movement, this performance could also be of interest to those on family breaks in Cape Town.

"This play takes those twin concepts of memory and performance and offers the audience a different kind of remembrance, tribute and archive to a place and to a woman who called that place home," Davids explains.

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