How Now Brown Cow Proudly Presents
The World Premiere of
EXPELLED
SEASONS
Studio Theatre at The Baxter
7 February - 2 March 2024
The Market Theatre (in association with)
7 March - 31 March 2024
The production had its World Premiere in Cape Town at the Golden Arrow Studio Theatre at The Baxter on Wednesday 7 February, and ran until 2 March 2024.
It then transferred to The Market Theatre in Johannesburg, and ran from from 7 to 31 March 2024.
Both seasons played to exceptional attendances and gained superb critical responses.
Written by Rosalind Butler (as a commission from the HNBC Writers’ Collective Program)
Expelled is a play about social media’s power to connect and its power to destroy. Can a few minutes of bad judgment ruin a life?
Expelled is a family drama, darkly comedic at times, which focuses on the largely ungoverned world of social media. Alex, a Matric pupil at an elite school, gets caught up in a viral scandal and is suspended. Once shared, lives alter in seconds, what’s seen cannot be unseen. The ramifications for his family are profound.
Written by Rosalind Butler, Expelled was created out of How Now Brown Cow’s script development program, The Writers’ Collective during lockdown in 2020. Directed by Craig Freimond, the cast features Charmaine Weir-Smith and Antony Coleman alongside Nicolas Hattingh. Designs for the production are by Kieran McGregor and Daniel Rutland Manners.
Production Credits
CAST
Lou | Charmaine Weir-Smith
Rich | Antony Coleman
Alex | Nicolas Hattingh
Headmaster (on screen) | Graham Hopkins
Cass (on screen) | Amelia Smith
Boys (on screen) | Luke Robertson & Matthew McKenzie
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director | Craig Freimond
Production Design (Set, Lighting, Costume, Video Concept) | Kieran McGregor
Video Content Design | Daniel Rutland Manners
Photography | Brett Rubin & Daniel Rutland Manners
Stage Manager | Loren Nel
Filming and Editing | Keaton Ditchfield of Ditchfield Productions
Set Construction | Gerhard Morkel
Cape Town Publicity | Christine Skinner
Johannesburg Publicity | Collett Dawson
Social Media Management for HNBC | Alyssa Harrison
Choir in recordings | St David’s Marist Inanda
Choral Director | Jaco Ferreira | Head of Music | Ceri Moelwyn-Hughes
“The topicality of Expelled immediately appealed to How Now Brown Cow and we are proud to have nurtured it’s development through The Writers’ Collective. It is a pertinent play for our social media obsessed world, and we believe it’s critical impact will resonate loudly for years to come. We all need to witness this valuable story.”
- Julie-Anne Mcdowell (Founder, How Now Brown Cow)
