The Return of Elvis du Pisanie
Sat Feb 8, 18:30 - Sat Feb 8, 19:40
Simola Hotel, Country Club & Spa
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***PAUL SLABOLEPSZY’S THE RETURN OF ELVIS DU PISANIE HERE IN KNSYNA FOR JUST ONE NIGHT Saturday 8 February 2025***
Meet Eddie du Pisanie (played by Ashley Dowds) – a forty-six year old East Rand salesman – who is retrenched and decides life is no longer worth living. He writes a suicide note to his wife and is about to gas himself in his car in the garage, when he switches on the car radio. The Elvis Presley song he hears does more than take him back 30 years – it recalls an event in his childhood that changed his life forever. Abandoning – for the moment – the idea of suicide, he drives the 200 kilometre journey to the town in which he grew up, to a lamp post opposite the ex-Carlton Bioscope in Witbank, there to retrace his life, to try to find out what went wrong, how it went wrong, and – perhaps most importantly – why it went wrong…