The world premiere of the stage adaptation of André Van de Merwe’s searing autobiographical novel, Moffie, runs at Studio 3, Riverside Studios, from Wednesday, 5 to Sunday, 30 June 2024. Book Tickets Now
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Presented by The Fugard Theatre Archive in association with The Common Humanity Arts Trust (CHAT) South Africa, Moffie is South African playwright Philip Rademeyer’s adaptation of André Carl van der Merwe’s biographical novel about his time as a conscript in the apartheid era South African Defence Force into a dramatic monologue, performed by rising star Kai Luke Brümmer.
Brümmer will reprise his role as Nicholas van der Swart, the character he portrayed in South African director Oliver Hermanus’s critically acclaimed 2019 film adaptation of the novel, which we described as “a stunning central performance that demonstrates the emotional cost of individual and social oppression on young men building their sense of self.”
Greg Karvellas, the former Artistic Director of The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, directs with designs by Niall Griffin and Sound Design by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, the former Musical Director of The Fugard Theatre.
Director Greg Karvellas said, “The much-lauded 2019 Oliver Hermanus film adaptation of Moffie was a deeply affecting portrayal of a dark chapter in South African history, seldom discussed by the tens of thousands of now old, white South African men who were traumatised by the brutality of their experience as boys. Moffie is a South African slur for a gay man, and it was weaponised to shame white South African males into submission in defence of apartheid in the 1980s. Bringing this story to the London stage offers an opportunity to engage with its themes through the medium of a powerful dramatic monologue in this 30th anniversary year of South Africa’s democracy”.
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