He Had It Coming
Fri Aug 23, 19:30 - Fri Aug 23, 21:30
Ocean Edge Fitness
ABOUT
Created by the same team responsible for the multiple award-winning My Fellow South Africans, He Had It Coming is a similar multi-sketch, one-woman piece again featuring the extremely talented Kim Blanche Adonis. To mark Women's Month, He Had It Coming - which highlights a range of themes related to women - will be staged at 19:30 on Friday 23 August at the Ocean Edge Fitness Club in Harbour Bay Mall.
Taking its name from the lyrics of Cell Block Tango in the hit musical Chicago, He Had It Coming uses satire, comedy, poetry, song and drama to explore and educate audiences about the scourge of gender-based violence and its related themes.
Writing about the 2022 edition of He Had It Coming, Robyn Cohen states
Kim Blanche Adonis is absolutely feisty as she segues between multiple characters in sketches underpinned by gender-based violence and the fear which women deal with daily…
…Van Graan’s script is threaded with his unerring and unflinching gaze on the nation that we love but which is ruptured and fractured by so much grief and despair. It is the self-deprecating humour that gets us through.