Fiela's Child The Musical

“Forget movies, forget 3D, forget recession, forget everything and just go see Fiela’s Child at the Savoy Theatre” - 2011 Review

The P.E. Gilbert & Sullivan Society takes great pride in bringing Feila’s Child the Musical back to the PE stage due to popular demand after a highly acclaimed run in 2011. Audiences and critics alike were moved to joy and tears by South African stage legend Ian von Memerty’s hauntingly beautiful, musical adaptation of Dalene Matthee’s classic tale, Fiela se Kind. Fiela’s Child the Musical brings to life the much loved Fiela Kommoetie and her fight to bring her “hand child” Benjamin home to his loving family.

Robin Williams directs a cast of P.E.’s finest starring Centrestage dynamo Donna Africa reprising the role of Fiela with a supporting cast that includes Kelly-Leigh Mucka, Neil Leachman, Herbie Clayton, Jason Humm, James van der Merwe and Kasvia von Memerty. This production features Musical Direction by Neil Leachman, Lighting Design by David Limbert and Sound Design by Brendon Samuels and Neil Thomson.

Set in the forests of Knysna in the Eastern Cape, Fiela’s Child the Musical tells the story of a coloured woman, Fiela Kommoetie, and her family who adopt a three year old white child who appears one morning on their doorstep. Nine years later the child is torn from the only mother he has ever known and forced to live with the van Rooyens, a white family of woodcutters who claim he is their son who went missing in the forest many years before. Fiela mourns the loss of her son, Benjamin, and never stops searching for him or trying to seek justice from the white legal system. The climax of the story unfolds a few years later when the boy confronts his "mother" and, overcome by guilt, she confesses that he is not her son and he returns to Fiela and the Kommoetie family whom he chooses as his own.

This production runs from 17th to the 28th of July at the Savoy Theatre in Adcockvale with performances nightly from Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm and matinees at 2.00pm on Saturday 21st and 28th July. Tickets are available at Computicket for R110 for each performance and at just R80 for all tickets to the matinee on Saturday 21st. Group bookings of 20 or more can be made by contacting Rose Cowpar on 072 906 1977.

Be prepared to laugh, dance, cry, sing and rejoice as you experience the magic that is Fiela’s Child the Musical.