THEATRE REVIEW: Tumi Morake struts back onto stage with laugh-a-minute Tease!
Comedian says it was important to return to theatre to pump up her performance muscle
It’s a rare treat to experience leading stand-up comedian Tumi Morake in a theatre and she is more than happy to return to her performance roots in a new production of Tease!. A Wits graduate in dramatic art, Morake’s stage homecoming was always inevitable — theatre taught her how to tell stories and honed her comedic bone. She made her tentative return in 2014 with Greg Homann’s Oedipus @ Koö-Nú!, his National Arts Festival showcase as a Standard Bank Young Artist for theatre. It was a clever and risky move on Morake’s part, because productions in the festival main programme are easily remembered. She played the dual roles of a comical chorus and a majestic Theseus, revealing a layer to her acting skill. It was important to return to theatre to pump up her performance muscle. “I want to improve my storytelling in my comedy. I want to use my body more. I want to play more with accents on stage. And theatre allows me to do that,” she says. She and actress Vanessa Frost had talked abo...
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