The creators of the award-winning, high-energy, comedy PaperBoy bring you a trailblazing pop rock musical, A Beautiful Wreckage. Meet the straight-laced “good boy” Chase, and his bestie, Damon, a cartoonist, righteous blogger and hippy at heart. These two young men of the moment hit first year varsity hard. Wild and wonderful nights on the town are the name of their game. Crazy youthful memories, created by the moment; some unforgettable, others highly regrettable and a few fateful moments which change their lives.

A clever combination of multi-media and musical theatre will have you engrossed in the story of these two charmingly likable characters who face the start of the real world. Will they tackle their obstacles fearlessly or crumble?

You’ll laugh, squirm and even shed a few tears in this reminiscent journey of “the student years”.


Performer Biographies:
Grant Jacobs is back with his first original show after four years. The Cape Town based performer/theatre maker has made his rounds performing locally and internationally in a variety of productions: Bar None (Kalk Bay Theatre), African Passion (National Tour), PaperBoy (National Tour) and Cinderella (Al Rayyan Theatre, Doha) to name a few. In addition Grant is always busy on the side in studio or on stage with local bands like Veranda Panda in which he has played on 5FM’s live at 5. Combining his talents of music, theatre, lighting and sound, Grant has teamed up with Liam McDermott a new, fresh artist to bring you “Beautiful Wreckage”.

Liam McDermott Cape town born Liam McDermott is a newbie on the scene. A multi-disciplined artist in areas of art, music and drama. Liam is an outstanding singer-songwriter who has been tackling the live music scene and later this year will be releasing some of his own original music. “Beautiful Wreckage” is Liam’s first theatrical production in which you will see just a sneak peak of the capability of this artist.

Audience Responses

It was really well put together and had one on edge till the very end. Too bad for a few minor background and sound glitches. I would suggest that more people go out and see the show. I enjoyed it fully. Thanks!!!

The acting was professional and it was a well-rehearsed and directed play. The story line was well depicted in every aspect from the music, lyrics and props. I enjoyed the originality in the music and Grant and Liam's voices complement each other well. There were great articulation and emotional expression throughout the play. It did bring back memories of my Varsity years, the awesome sense of freedom and then the question of how to deal with it! Thought the visual of their Diggs was in -congruent with the rest of the props. The visual created a sense of a perfect, clinical room which made the furniture seem to not fit. It may create even more of a setting and feel if the visual of the room displays the feel of the furniture props. Enjoyed the show. I wish Liam and Grant all the best. Comments by Tersia Mills.

Was good entertainment for the right age group being younger people

Actors were very natural on stage, very good original piece of work. I quite enjoyed it.

For me it needs some reworking on the scrip and the two actors needs some couching too especially the one who played Damien I think his name was . His voice production was very weak when he sung Chad was a lot better

The performance was obviously well planned, well rehearsed and well executed. Live performance is difficult to execute without incident, and these two young men did it brilliantly. I very much enjoyed the performance, and a nod of approval to Alexander bar for providing a venue for these types of events in a world that seems to be less and less focused on promoting young talent and live creative performance. Well done!!

Thought provoking. Should be seen by all young people finishing matric/ starting university. It has powerful message