2025 – Cape Town
Geraldine Aron is an Irish playwright born in Galway who has lived in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Bar and Ger has been performed at the Royal National Theatre in London, the Edinburgh Festival, and throughout the world in fourteen languages. Mickey Kannis Caught My Eye won the SABC-TV Best Play Award and the Tonight Award for Best Single Drama. Bringing two of her works to the Milnerton Playhouse in a single evening was an ambitious choice — and the right one.
Directed by Godfrey Johnson — Fleur du Cap-winning performer, composer and director — the double bill featured Gregan Aherin and Kendra Maduray in Mickey Kannis Caught My Eye, and Jean-Marie Schoots and Chris Cameron-Dow in Bar and Ger.
Mickey Kannis Caught My Eye follows a man at a crossroads — caught between familial expectation and the pursuit of an unfulfilled dream. Bar and Ger is the story of two siblings, told in vignettes from childhood through to adulthood and tragedy, stripped back to an empty stage, two black crates, and one white scarf.
Hema Maskowitz served as lighting designer, operator, production manager, and production designer — responsible alongside the stage manager for all costumes, sets, and props across both productions. Two very different plays, sharing a stage in a single evening, each needing its own visual and atmospheric world built from the same resources. An exercise in precision, economy, and craft.
Photography: Christoff Van Wyk / @superstof