Ou Wyntoon – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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PUTTING the ‘aaaa!’ into ‘eina!’, Ou Wyntoon en die Weerlose Kreatuur is an essay of gout and wine. Photograph courtesy http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

NOT EVERY WOMAN out there is a defenceless shrinking violet as cliché and politically-correct rhetoric may tell you. Take the one who bursts into the private toe-related agonies of Kistunov, a 19th century Russian curmudgeon and banker (played by Johann Nel) to beleaguer him with her own domestic dilemmas. Ou Wyntoon en die Weerlose Kreatuur, an hilarious and brilliant piece of Chekhov impeccably magicked into Afrikaans by Nico Luwes, is what you will discover on the radio on Heritage Day, this year.

It’s a tale of gout and wine, money and gender stereotypes being pushed into new and rude frameworks, as it is one about self-importance and the selfishness of suffering. Beautifully performed by Nel opposite Esther von Waltsleben, this 1899 short story is brought to graphic life that smacks of relevance, even to us,…

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