FEMME IS FATALE

Femme is Fatale is an original cutting cabaret about Gender-based Violence performed by stage veteran, Elzabé Zietsman, with Tony Bentel on piano. Marna feels like an old prune after Koos, her husband of 30 years, left her for a younger plum. She adopts a dog and plans a visit to her daughters in Australia. Lian knows from a very young age that she is trapped in the wrong body. She saves every cent she makes to pay for hormone therapy and the necessary operations so that she can be her true self. Khanyi cleans houses and dreams of studying beauty therapy. She walks long distances to work and back to save enough money to break the domestic worker cycle of the woman in her family.
These three women not only share chasing their dreams, but they also get confronted by the same monster. The work hast garnered two respected nominations in the category Best Music Driven Production at Woordfees in 2022 and the Fiësta Awards in 2023.

Written by Bruce J Little
Directed by Eloise Clasen