Art of Charf (Lady Lonely Hearts) - Event

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Art of Charf (Lady Lonely Hearts) 16 August 2006

Paul Slabolepszy's latest play, Art of Charf (Lady Lonely Hearts), starring Elize Cawood and Wilson Dunster comes to the Baxter Theatre Centre from August 16 until September 14.

This critically-acclaimed, hilarious quasi-romantic comedy was written especially for the husband and wife team and is directed by Bobby Heaney.

Cawood plays Gloria van der Vyfer, an Agony Aunt for various Afrikaans womens magazines for longer than she cares to remember, is closing down her business. Her computer dating service has been made redundant by internet and online chat rooms. As she packs up the tiny office that has been home to Lady Lonely Hearts" for close to 25 years, she is visited by a retired plumber, Cedric Tidbury (played by Dunster) who is set on finding a date for himself. A hilarious journey of self-discovery for both begins. Can a man and a woman ever see eye-to-eye? Is there an actual art to the charf?

Wilson has appeared in almost 40 movies and is well-known as Diehard in the movie There's a Zulu on my Stoep. For television his roles have included Oom Syd Keyser in Konings and Torings, Spider in Egoli and the first mine manager Pierre de Villiers in Isidingo. Over the years he has appeared at the Baxter Theatre Centre in The Cherry Orchard, An Oak Falls, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Torch Song Trilogy, to name a few.

Elize is currently on television as Rebecca Rossouw in the soapie Villa Rosa. She also played a fearless white woman who befriends the residents of a black township in the film Taxi to Soweto. Other work includes Verspeelde Lente, Konings, Torings, Onder draai die Duiwel rond, An Old Wife's Tale, and Schreiner - a One Woman Play by Stephen Gray.

Paul Slabolepszy, Wilson Dunster and Elize Cawood all received nominations for the Gauteng Naledi Theatre Awards 2005. Art of Charf was also nominated for Best Production at the 2006 Klein Karoo National Arts Festival.

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