SCRIPT TEASE : Mike Van Graan's "TO LIFE, WITH LOVE"
Mike van Graan’s poetic solo drama - To Life, With Love – will be staged as a reading featuring Andre Stolz at POPArt as part of the Script tease programme.
John Maytham, a well-known broadcaster with Cape Talk and a Rhodes University-trained actor commissioned multiple award-winning playwright Mike van Graan to write him a one-person play with a blank canvas regarding themes. Inspired by Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal and drawing on Helena Dolny’s book, Before Ever After, Mike developed To Life, With Love featuring the character Thomas Michael Faulkner. Thomas has experienced love, professional success, personal loss and social affirmation. Then, in his sixties, Thomas is diagnosed with a dread disease. There is a great chance of recovery, but Thomas is confronted by his mortality. With many good years ahead, Thomas makes choices about how he will live.
In anticipation of a run later in the year, Andre Stolz will present this hour-long work as a reading for subscribers and angels of MVG Productions as well as the general theatre-supporting public as part of POPArt's ongoing SCRIPT TEASE programme.