6. Your guilty pleasure?
Chocolate nuts and raisins.
7. What do you regret?
Nothing. Just the things I was too afraid to do.
8. What do you never want to have again?
The years of separate developments and the early loss of my golden locks.
9. If you had to date yourself, why would you dump yourself?
Well, Pieter has no backbone and Dirk is a hard-ass — so the second date would not have taken place.
10. Do you ad-lib if your audience reacts differently than you expected? Or if you forget your words?
Ad-lib is part of my theatre alphabet. I work windows into the structure, where I can leave the text and joke with the audience — and know where I left the mothership. Otherwise it is a mess of repetitions and uncertainties. Forgetting words is not the problem; it's the meaning behind the word that makes words sound comfortable.
11. Who inspires you?
People with a sense of humour, a sense of anger and a broad sense for the absurd.
12. Your favourite world city? And why?
Right now, Berlin. It's my mother's hometown and I respect a city that remembers its horrific past.
13. If you could invite three people, living or deceased, to lunch, who would you choose?
Maria van Riebeeck, Betsie Verwoerd and Winnie Mandela … just imagine!
14. Your most disastrous show?
If it happened, I have totally forgotten about it. It must have been really disastrous!
15. If you could choose any artist to paint your portrait, who would you choose?
Nina van der Westhuizen here in Darling. At Evita's Perron there are 26 paintings she painted in the style of the great masters: Picasso, Leonardo, Trechy, Warhol +++ . Brilliantly adapted to everyone's technique. She will paint me without an Evita mug!
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