FRANKLIN AND FRIENDS ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL 2012
Sleeping Beauty – the Pantomime!
SLEEPING BEAUTY – THE PANTOMIME
Congrats on a great show guys! The reception from the audience was fantastic and everyone enjoyed the show thoroughly!!
Sleeping Beauty, THE pantomime was a modern day version of the classic fairytale, featuring an IT nerd hero, a Greenpeace activist for a Princess and a suitable evil Augusta Stern, recently fired from Castletech, the biggest corporation on Sandton Square. On the Eve of Aurora’s (the daughter of the chairman of the board of Castletech) 21st birthday, Augusta plans to poison the lovely girl using a ten tiered birthday cake that her nitwit sons managed to bake at home for the occasion. Featuring “The Dame” – journalist Gwen Gil, this panto had audiences giggling throughout the show.
Director: Chris Esterhuyse
Musical Direction: Candice Taylor
Production Secretary: Claire Demmer
Scriptwriter: Claire Demmer
Choreography: John Atkinson
Sound and Lighting and Backstage: Darren Fourie, Robert Cunningham, Delaine Cunningham
Makeup: Lianne Gill
Starring: Taryn Brehm, Els de Bundel, Marius du Toit, Claire Demmer, Delia Leopold, Candice Taylor, Wendy Brehm, Katharine Forsyth, Carri Lyons, Chris Esterhuyse
Franklin Does Broadway!!!
Franklin Does Broadway was our 3/4 year show, featuring all the best and well known Broadway songs from the past 60 years! Directed and produced by Mandy McMaster and choreographed by Kumo Konopi-Segaole, this show was put on stage in just 6 short weeks, but thanks to hours of practice, and a very talented, dedicated cast, we put on a decent show!!
Our 3/4 year show is never set in stone – it is more of an experimental platform in which the directors or producers of a show can put on a show of almost any genre. It is also a platform to bring new blood into Franklin, as well as using talented performers from other shows who may not have necessarily been selected to do our big mid year acting piece.
Starring: Candice Taylor, James Chisholm, Joy Alexander, Cat Coxon, Tina Fraser, Kat Forsyth, Selina Dhlamini, Claire Demmer, Traci Scerri, Taryn Brehm, Wendy Brehm, Alex Hattingh, Owen Swart, Johnathen Bester, Teri Goldberg, Li-att Mayer, Carri Lyons, Kumo Konopi-Segaole, Clezzo Dhlamini, Mervin Lowe
Producer: Mandy McMaster
Choreographer and Stage Manager: Kumo Konopi-Segaole
Production Secretary: Wendy Brehm
Backstage: Mervin Lowe and Clezzo Dhlamini
Set: Hennie Greyvenstein and Spencer Rowley
Props: Carri Lyons
Sound and Lighting: Des and Robert Cunningham respectively
Thanks to Robert Cunningham for his stunning intelligent lighting that he loaned us for the show.
The Odd Couple
2011′s dry comedy of the year! Well done, guys, for a fabulous mid year production. Despite lower audience numbers due to the Walk the Talk, shockingly cold weather and everybody being down with the flu, we had a great run. Everyone who saw the show said that it was excellent and some came back twice! Great job!

The Odd Couple, by Neil Simon, follows two men who have recently become divorced who decide to become room mates. Unfortunately, the one is an obsessive compulsive neat freak and the other a total slob. Hilarious combination of two opposite personalities!
Director: Dewan Demmer
Assistant Director: Ana Holmes
Production Secretary: Wendy Brehm
Props and Backstage: Carri Lyons
Starring: Hennie Greyvenstein, Spencer Rowley, James Chisholm, Stephen Watkins, Daniel Oosthuizen, Mervin Lowe, Traci Scerri and Shirley Tique.
Franklin and Friends One Act Play Festival 2011
This year’s play fest featured six Franklin plays, and it ran over two weekends, giving the actors a chance to stretch their legs on stage before they would be adjudicated the following weekend. All the performers thoroughly enjoyed themselves on stage. Thanks to our three great adjudicators, Steven Feinstein, Anthony Fridjohn, and Charlotte Butler and to Mark from Starlight Creations for the layout of the hall, it looked magnificent.
Congrats to the following winners:
Best Production: A slice of Cheesecake
Best Director: Ashley Nader
Best Actress; Shikara Singh
Best Supporting Actress; Jenny Schmidt
Best Actor: John Atkinson
Best Supporting Actor: Stephen Watkins
Best Newcomer: Joe Gouws
Best Cameo: Wendy Brehm
Best Script: The Gold Locket by Ana Holmes
Best Novice production: Pals by Cat Coxon and Pension Thursday by Hennie Greyvenstein
Runner up to best production: Pals by Cat Coxon
Best Set: Pension Thursday
Colours of Music
The Colours of Music was Franklin’s year-end musical in 2010. It followed the story of a grey person who takes a metaphorical journey through the heart of the city, meeting all sorts of bright characters along the way in order to gain colour in their life. A dancing show with some singing numbers. Featuring music with a colourful theme.
Choreographer: Cathy Rowley
Starring: Taryn Brehm, Shikara Singh, Kathy Clayton, Teri Goldberg, Grant Prinsloo, Stephen Watkins, Cathleen Limerick, Carri Lyons, Lays Bammesberger, Ryan Julyan, Cathy Rowley, Alice Bester, Chelsea Rowley, Monique Grobbelaar, Candice Taylor, Elit Ben-Attar, Jenny Schmidt, William Davis, Jamie-Lee and Jessica Smerkovitz, Demi-Ray and Gino Pereira, Chloë Raubenheimer, Cameron and Daniel Rowley
Shriek! The Fairytale
Shriek – a Fairytale, by Claire Demmer was the third production of 2010. This was the first time we have added an extra production in between the mid year and end year shows. The aim was to get new blood into Franklin, give actors that had less experience on stage a chance to learn, and also to give the new members who had joined in the One Act Play fest a chance to act again in 2010, if they weren’t involved in Noises Off!
Shriek is a Fairytale about a beautiful princess, her three not so ugly sisters, a wicked witch, an even wickeder witch, and a foul plan to take over the magical kingdom on the eve of the Princess’s sixteenth birthday.
Director: Candice Taylor and Claire Demmer
Choreography: Cathy Rowley
Starring: Cathleen Limerick, Heather Walker, Katharine Forsyth, Candice Taylor, Ana Holmes, Alex Hattingh, Grant Prinsloo, Carri Lyons, Dimitri Liountris ,Daniel Oosthuizen, Stephen Watkins, Dave Morgan, Seb Hattingh, Daniel Rowley, Cathy Rowley, Sibusiso Makama, Nthabiseng Chauke, Wendy Brehm, Taryn Brehm, Heather Murch, Kim Blanchard, Dane Blanchard
Noises Off!
Noises Off! – a farce in three acts, by Michael Frayn was 2010′s big mid year production. With a huge revolving double storey set in three parts, and a cast of nine experienced actors, this show was the highlight of 2010. It is one of the most difficult farces to stage, as it is literally a story about a play within a play and most of Act 2 involves very little dialogue, other than what you hear in the background, and it is entirely actions that the audience see. Congrats to Franklin for pulling this one off with style!
Director: John Atkinson
Assistant Director: Chris Esterhuyse
Production Secretary: Wendy Brehm
Props and Backstage: Carri Lyons
Starring: Spencer Rowley, Claire Demmer, Ricky Veale, Taryn Brehm, Jeremy Forsyth, Cat Coxon, Danielle Blanchard, Jai Sewram and Hennie Greyvenstein.
Franklin and Friends One Act Play Festival 2010
The Franklin and Friends One Act Play Festival in March 2010 was a phenomenal success. Franklin Players entered 6 plays and two external societies also joined us – EADS, who put on “Mickey Kannis caught my eye” and NMDP, who put on “In the Blood.”
Congratulations to the Following Award Winners:
Best Production: Stirred, not Shaken
Runner up the Best Production: Mickey Kannis caught my eye
Best Director: Claire Demmer
Best Actor: Ricky Veale
Best Actress: Charnelle DF
Best Supporting Actor: Gavin Barron
Best Supporting Actress: Ana Holmes
Best Cameo: Teri Goldberg
Best Newcomer: Tom Cronje
Best Novice Director: Ashley Nader
Best Original Script: Stirred, not Shaken, by Claire Demmer
Best Set: Mandy McMaster for Fawlty Towers
Merits: Cat Coxon, Lianne Gill, Wendy Brehm
Babes on Broadway
2009 saw our Big Bang musical “Babes on Broadway” take to the stage. Featuring a female only cast, and songs from Broadway shows from all time. Favourites included songs from the show “Wicked” which is still running on Broadway to well loved tunes from “My Fair Lady” and There’s no Business like Show Business! The aim of this show was to put on a show of professional quality, despite being an amateur cast, and, as a cast member, I can truly say that Sean and Paul worked us hard in order to achieve this goal. Congrats on a slick, professional show, guys!
Producer: Paul Redpath
Starring: Kathy Clayton, Marinela Pereira, Cathleen Limerick, Candice Taylor, Claire Demmer, Alex Hattingh, Taryn Brehm, Wendy Brehm, Li-at Meyer, Terri Goldberg, Cat Coxon, Carri Lyons, Anita Jack, Cathy Rowley



















