Just Business

Playwright: Mike van Graan

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Presented by Artscape

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Direction & Lighting Design: Fred Abrahamse

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Set & Costume Design: Marcel Meyer

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Photography: Pat Bromilow-Downing

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Cast: Andre Jacobs, Kurt Egelhof, Mbulelo Grootboom

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Venue/s: National Arts Festival [2012], Artscape Arena [2012], Hilton Festival [2012],

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About: First staged as Hostile Takeover by the Market Theatre at the National Arts Festival in 2006, Just Business has been radically reworked and updated. A play about Black Economic Empowerment taking an uncompromising, provocative and humorous look at the unscrupulous enrichment and greed in post-1994 South Africa.

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What the Press Said:

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“Just Business is a fast-paced, punch line-loaded play poking fun at the cowboys of the criminal underworld.” SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

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“Just Business is a concise imagining of what happens when anything and anyone can be bought for the right price.” CAPE ARGUS

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 “Marcel Meyer’s set design ingeniously foregrounds the central thread of the story-line, while still allowing the play to switch effortlessly from one scene to another.” CAPE TIMES

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FLEUR DU CAP THEATRE AWARDS:

Best Supporting Actor – Mbulelo Grootboom [win]

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STANDARD BANK OVATION AWARDS – National Arts Festival