The production attracted full houses at the National Arts Festival (NAF) last month, which its creative team attributes partly to Mike van Graan’s reputation as a leading contemporary playwright and the strong festival following enjoyed by Pay Back the Curry! director Rob van Vuuren and producer Siv Ngesi. Judging from the audience response wherever they’ve performed, it’s safe to say that this multi-sketch production has put actor Daniel Richards on the map, too.Just two-and-a-half years since he graduated from UCT with an honours degree in theatre and performance, Richards is working with Van Graan for the second time. The first was a production called Born Free, which Ngesi originally commissioned from Van Graan as a piece of stand-up comedy. An invitation to participate in the So You Think You Can Dance local television series meant Ngesi had to bow out and Richards took his place. So impressed was Van Graan by Richards’ range as a singer, dancer, musician and actor that he deci...
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