Arts Writer
BOYKIE and Girlie have been together for several years; they live in a comfortable, but unfashionable, flat somewhere in Johannesburg. They are no longer in the first flush of their lives, experience has roughened their edges.
One evening, Girlie returns home and once again finds Boykie in a foul mood. The past and the present collide and what ensues exposes their many different faces: values, ambitions, sexual needs and ability to love.
Allan Kolski Horwitz will direct Khutjo Green and Craig Morris in Boykie and Girlie at Alexander Upstairs Theatre in Strand Street from January 5 to 16 at 7pm.
Boykie and Girlie premiered in July last year at the Wits Downstairs Theatre in Johannesburg as part of the South African Season of Theatre and Politics organised by Drama for Life.
Horwitz is a writer, teacher, editor and activist. He is also a member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group and of the Botsotso Publishing editorial board.
He has published two books of poetry, Saving Water and There Are Two Birds at My Window.
His short fiction is contained in three collections – Un/common Ground, Out of the Wreckage and Meditations of a Non-White White.
Besides Boykie and Girlie, he has written four other plays: The Pump Room, Comrade Babble, Jerico and Book Marks.
Green got her first taste for performance in The Cage Birds, directed by Janet Jobson.
In 2013 she was awarded a Naledi Theatre Award for Best Performance by Actress in a Lead Role for her performance in The Line.
Performing artist and teacher Morris includes physical theatre, mime, contemporary dance, directing and clowning in his varied repertoire.
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