Cat and Monkey – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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CROSSROADS and surprises: Danielle Retief is Jess and Rowlen von Gericke is Martin, in Cat & Monkey, at Theatre on the Square in Sandton, until 6 May. Photograph by Philip Kuhn.

WHAT ARE THE odds that a hefty dose of chicanery, some treachery and a handful of sluttery will win the day? In Cat & Monkey, a work rewritten for stage based on the eponymous de la Fontaine fable of the 15th century, Danielle Retief and Rowlen von Gericke take the narrative values of a moral about bad people who will use naïve ones to their own ends and cast it against the fabric of two young people in a relationship. It’s on show for a brief season at Theatre on the Square in Sandton, until 6 May.

This is where you will meet Martin Scheepers, a fireman (von Gericke) and Jessica Walker (Retief), a bit of a psychic with a face that is not dissimilar from that of French-British actress Emma Mackey. In a story that presents a range of moral hairpin bends as surprising as those that that…

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