South African Apartheid Play FAFI Comes to FringeNYC Tonight

J.H.B is proud to present FAFI as part of the 19th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC.

FAFI is a South African production that will have its world premiere at this year's festival. It is a solo show featuring SA television, film and theatre practitioner, Gys de Villiers.

The play is a one-man autobiographical journey of his life as a white Afrikaner coming of age in Apartheid South Africa.

FAFI is the illegal betting game played in townships where you make bets based on the dream symbols from the night before. The entire 'game' is run by a Chinese contingent. FAFI follows his 'dream life' that he needs to confess to his other mother, his black mother-Elsie. We follow him from growing up in a repressed Afrikaans household, his military service nightmares to his present day sense of fragmentation and searching for peace and authenticity.

The play is peppered with the cross-cultural 'potjiekos' of South African references. The dominating sounds and flavors coming from the Zulu, Chinese and Afrikaans cultures and where they meet in that landscape and time.

Gys De Villiers as the lead actor is a household name in SA and is an extraordinary 'physical theatre' performer who has really honed his stagecraft over his extensive 30-year career. FAFI is co-written and directed by Jaci de Villiers, multi-award winning writer and director.

Jozi Home Boys has birthed over 12 original works including the award winning 'Suig','The Afrikaner', 'Wood for the Trees' and 'Wit Manne se Wapens'. This company is now based in New York City and is touring with their green themed play, Global Warning and business integrity expose -A Change of Heart. Two new productions in development in 2015 include the magic realism fantasy fable, Finding Fellini and the epic post colonialism deconstruction play, The Masters.

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