As ‘n kind kom kuier, by Zelda Bezuidenhout

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Robyn Sassen

RADIO DRAMA REVIEW: AS ‘N KIND KOM KUIER.

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DOLLAR Brand: A corner thread to Zelda Bezuidenhout’s play ‘As ‘n kind kom kuier’.

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FILTERED THROUGH WITH botanical references and the best of African jazz, the trajectory of Zelda Bezuidenhout’s Afrikaans-language radio drama As ‘n Kind Kom Kuier, which debuts this evening on Radio Sonder Grense, is one that sings to the wisdom of the elderly. You will strain to hear every last word of this finely structured work, which flies in the face of what society may expect.

Elna Smit-Smith (Antoinette Kellermann) is an elderly Johannesburg widow with cancer. Her adult son and daughter are busy with their own lives in their own contexts. She has a caregiver, Vanessa (June van Merch), who holds her tight, administers drugs and listens to her bitter disappointments and moments of levity. And then, the dreaded and unthinkable occurs and a young man – a child, really – pops into their lives.

Nicknamed ‘Dollar’ this teenager…

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