Encore Season of OOM SCHALK: FROM THE HEART 2 for the Rosebank Theatre

The inimitable Oom Schalk Lourens, played by actor David Muller, returns to the Rosebank Theatre for a two-week season of OOM SCHALK: FROM THE HEART 2.

Perspicaciously directed by Celia Musikanth, David Muller continues with the classic tradition of story-telling where Percy Sieff and Patrick Mynhardt left off. Muller aims to inhabit the Schalk Lourens character and to truly play him from the heart, telling stories about love, postal strikes, elongated trances in the pulpit, music makers and peach brandy.

The first edition of OOM SCHALK: FROM THE HEART and its sequel have both been affirmed as family treats during seasons in Durban, Grahamstown and Cape Town.

When Herman Charles Bosman created the lovable Oom Schalk Lourens as narrator for most of his short stories, he knew the power of words: "Words are the most powerful instruments that life holds, and since poetry expresses itself through the medium of these tools, it is inevitable that the poet must exercise a stronger influence than a general or a statesman." Bosman went on to say that it is for the poet and the artist to tell us about the real Africa, writing that "Africa has much to teach us of thought that it is created in sand and ceremony and that life is an ancient ritual." No wonder writers and actors are still writing and staging work about him.

OOM SCHALK: FROM THE HEART 2 runs on Wednesdays through Saturdays from 17 February - 27 Feburay at 20:00. There will be a special matinee at 15:00 on 28 February, with "koffie en koeksusters". Tickets cost R100, with a R60 concession price for pensioners and students. Tickets can be booked at Webtickets.