THE RETURN OF ELVIS DU PISANIE Comes to The Drama Factory Next Month

A story that moves from pure nostalgia, through extreme heartache, to unbridled joy...The Return of Elvis du Pisanie is all at once - sad, amusing and gloriously uplifting…!

Eddie du Pisanie (Ashley Dowds) - a forty-nine year old East Rand salesman - is retrenched and decides life is no longer worth living. He writes a suicide note to his wife and is about to gas himself in his car in the garage, when he switches on the car radio. The Elvis Presley song he hears recalls an event in his childhood that changed his life forever. Abandoning - for the moment - the idea of suicide, he drives the 200 kilometre journey to the town in which he grew up, to a lamp post opposite the ex-Carlton Bioscope. Can we change our own destinies...?   “Who would have believed that a simple act of switching on a car radio could change the course of your life!?” EDDIE DU PISANIE

If you ever saw Paul Slabolepszy on stage as Eddie Du Pisanie around twenty years ago, you'll remember the thunder and lightning and hilarity of that story. It is one of those events on stage that you are COMPELLED to go and watch again, and maybe again.  Once the houselights go down, you're on a rollercoaster of a journey through Eddie's life, and when that reveal happens - the reason for the dark space around him - no spoilers - it sweeps you right out of your seat. You wonder why you couldn't see it coming. But that is because the story is written by an actor/playwright with so much tenderness for the characters, that you live vicariously with them in each moment. You're hardly thinking ahead.  

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