The Return of Elvis du Pisanie
19th to 21st February 2026
THE RETURN OF ELVIS DU PISANIE
Written and directed by Paul Slabolepszy
Performed by Ashley Dowds
A story that moves from pure nostalgia, through extreme heartache, to unbridled joy...The Return of Elvis du Pisanie is all at once - sad, amusing and gloriously uplifting…!
Tag line: Who would have believed that a simple act of switching on a car radio could change the course of your life!?
Eddie du Pisanie - a forty-nine year old East Rand salesman - is retrenched and decides life is no longer worth living. He writes a suicide note to his wife and is about to gas himself in his car in the garage, when he switches on the car radio. The Elvis Presley song he hears does more than take him back 30 years - it recalls an event in his childhood that changed his life forever. Abandoning - for the moment - the idea of suicide, he drives the 200 kilometre journey to the town in which he grew up, to a lamp post opposite the ex-Carlton Bioscope in Can we change our own destinies...? “Elvis” du Pisanie is about to find out...
Reviews:
https://www.eatplaydrink.capetown/play/theatre-doesnt-get-much-more-brilliant-than-elvis-du-pisanie/
https://robynsassenmyview.com/2024/05/25/review-of-the-return-of-elvis-du-pisane/