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Megan Choritz: Lost Property
8 April 2024
E: huma@uct.ac.za
HUMA Book Launch
Author: Megan Choritz, Independent Playwright, Director and Writer
Introduction: Lost Property tells the story of Laine, who gets a rude awakening when her marriage collapses after 15 years of lies and betrayal. Not all she believed in so strongly about her husband Mark is straightforward and adorable. As her world falls apart, memories of her Johannesburg childhood in apartheid South Africa come back and become a critical force on her road towards healing and moving on with her life. There are birds here, and they too help enrich the story in the most alluring ways.
About the author: Megan Choritz is a South African born playwright, actor, writer, director, and improviser. She lives in Cape Town and shares her home with furry animal people. Her immensely imaginative world is a world of theatre and make-believe. Megan graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1986 and worked as an actress before starting her own improvisation troupe in Cape Town. She has written and co-written numerous plays and musicals, performed and directed theatre. She improvises, teaches improv, and writes short stories, poems, and children’s stories. Her plays The Tent, Drive with Me and Clouds Like Waves have achieved critical acclaim. Lost Property, published in 2023, is her first novel.
About the Discussant:
Bianca Flanders is an actor, voice artist, writer, producer, and director from Cape Town. In 2011 she graduated from UCT with her degree in Theatre and Performance. In 2012 she completed a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education in English and Drama. Bianca has performed in various stage productions including Krotoa: Eva van de Kaap, District 6, Kanala, The Demon Bride, Happy New Year, Aunty Merle: The Musical, Orpheus in Africa, In Ongenade, Kristalvlakte, Alice in Wonderland, Niqabi Ninja and Alice in Wonderland. She has also had roles in various films and series such as Troukoors, Nêrens Noord Kaap, Barakat, Swirl, Our Girl, A Christmas Chorus and The Riviera. In 2021 Bianca wrote and directed her first feature film, Nativity which is available on Showmax. She is the author of the bestselling children’s books, Pumpkin Finds Her Queen, Pumpkin Finds Her Kindness and most recently, Pumpkin Finds Her Beat.
Convenor: Sandile Ngidi
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