FROM KOE'SIESTES TO KNEIDLACH at The Baxter Theatre

FROM KOE'SIESTES TO KNEIDLACH is a sort-of boy-meets-girl love story with a twist, a heart-warming and funny tale that reveals first-hand what it is like to be a goy, a Yiddish word used by some Jews to describe a non-Jew - and a coloured one at that - in the new South Africa. The play sees playwright and performer Chantal Stanfield tries to get to grips with a culture and heritage that is so vastly different to her own, yet sometimes surprisingly similar. The bizarre, entertaining and true story of what happens when a girl from the Cape Flats gets involved with a Jew-ish boy from Joburg's East Rand raises all sorts of questions and awkward situations for the young bride-to-be. She navigates a world of new Jewish experiences as she wrestles with the confusion of her own identity, dealing with things like the omnipresent voice of her mother, her gay best friend and her first Rabbi, all the while trying to find lasting love. This one-woman "kosher comedy" is directed by Megan Furniss.