I can buy myself flowers - Erika Breytenbach

The Sensational Erika Breytenbach, will be performing a fabulous award winning Theatre piece called I can buy myself flowers at The Showroom Theatre in Prince Albert on 8 November 2025.

Taking its name from Miley Cyrus’ song that became an anthem for single women the

world over, I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOWERS is a one-person comedy drama featuring

Natalie Jackson, an estate agent in her fifties, who entertains as she reflects on the

ups and downs of relationships, children, professional life and her women friendships.

Old enough to be on their second or third marriages, young enough not to be blamed

for apartheid and women enough for menopause, Natalie and her five friends adopt

Six-in-the- City as the name for their WhatsApp group. Working in an industry

dominated and led by women, inspired by women friends who have achieved

professional success and years of therapy have helped Natalie overcome her demons

and insecurities rooted in the familiar worlds of patriarchal families and relationships.

She is now ready to live on her own terms.

Written by Mike van Graan Directed by Toni Morkel

Performed by Erika Breytenbach

Produced by MVG Productions and Unlikely Productions

Language English Running time 65 min Age restriction PG16- sexual innuendo

ABOUT THE PLAY

I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOWERS is a play about women in their fifties and the issues that they

confront at the time, as well as the issues that they would generally have confronted in the

years leading up to then. That means that by then, they would have had relationships,

probably borne children, made their ways professionally, and will be at the beginning of

menopause. They would have been shaped by their mothers, by patriarchy, by their partners,

by social and professional pressures.

Natalie Jackson is the character in this piece and it is her particular and unique story –

interwoven with the stories of her friends - that will find resonance with women who would

have had similar experiences, in some form or another.

I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOWERS also seeks to be informative and educational while at the

same time challenging conventional wisdoms and cultural practices and provoking thought

about alternatives