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Your Perfect Life at The Drama Factory

Dates: (10/10/2019 - 10/12/2019 )

Theatre:

The Drama Factory


25 Comprop Sq, Henry Vos Close, Asla Business Park, Strand
Cape Town,

Phone: 073 215 2290

Tickets: R100 - R120

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Its their 20-year reunion and Karlien and Caitlyn are dreading the So, what have you been doing with your life? questions. One has a family, the other a career. Neither is sure they have what they want.Your Perfect Life, recipient of a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival this year, is a loosely autobiographical story, inspired by the lives of the writers and performers: Erika Marais and Faeron Wheeler. They play Karlien and Caitlyn, who were close friends in high school but attending different universities and having to make grown up decisions just got in the way. Its now twenty years later and they couldnt be more different.a well-rounded performance filled with the nerves that surface during a dreaded reunion day The Herald Spotlightvery thought provoking Rachelle Scott, audience memberWheeler and Marais held nothing back a thoroughly entertaining piece of local theatre Cape Town Theatre Desk

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