This Sunday Cabaret and Slow Life present Godfrey Johnson's "Vaslav"

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Godfrey Johnson played piano at Pieter Dirk's event at The Olympia Bakery. Tonight he celebrates the life of Vaslav Nijinsky

With six-time Fleur du Cap nominations and numerous awards under his belt, Johnson has broken new ground with the extraordinary oneman play, entitled ‘Vaslav’, which was cowritten and directed by equally unparalleled Lara Bye. A true theatrical triumph, ‘Valsav’ demands a formidable combination of skills and artistic depth, as reflected in the Fleur Du Cap’s 2015 nominations, in which Johnson became the first South African artist to be included in the following three categories:

- Best Actor in a Musical

- Best Performer in a One-Person Show

- Best Composer.

An exceptional diversity of categories for one show, much less one individual, it stands as a formal recognises his audiences’ time-honoured experience: Johnson’s simple solo performances are of a power and magnitude equal to the most elaborate of productions. 

Johnson recently brought ‘Valsav’ Johannesburg’s audiences, and Bye and Johnson are currently developing opportunities for European audiences, following interest from producers as far afield as Sweden and the Netherlands.

International Acclaim

Throughout his career, Johnson has delivered high-impact performances, and has a special place in audience's hearts and minds for his intimate and life-affirming delivery of Jaques Brel's work. At once dark and light, Johnson proves himself as much a dramatist as he is comedian. This ability also sees him bringing the songs and socialvignette's of Noel Coward’s life and times into the 21st century, bringing both him and Coward to new audiences, and his Brel and Coward is known from Montreal to London, and from Amsterdam to Boksburg.