A One Man Drug Caper. An Evangelist, A Rent Boy and a Drug Dealer walk into a bar...and what happens next is surreal and darkly funny. Told in the form of intersecting monologues and songs, this tour-de-force performance dips its toes in the seedy world of illicit drug dealing and the sex trade; but ultimately asks, what the cost of these activities are to the human spirit. “If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.” —Hyman G. Rickover  Further  'The Sin Eaters' is a one-man-play written and directed by Ian Gareth Hadfield; and performed by Adolph de Beer; that tells the story of three disparate characters whose lives intersect in a violent way. What connection could possibly exist between an Evangelist, a Rent Boy and a Drug Dealer? Or is the connection obvious?  This play looks at the destructive themes that drives the current social narrative: hypocrisy, illicit sex and drug taking, the blurring of the lines between the fantasy of cyberspace and the stark reality of post-modern society.   Along the way, we are transported from a church to a live broadcast of an internet sex show to a club dance floor, a serene yoga retreat...or is it an asylum?  This play is disturbingly funny, darkly ironic and thought-provoking. All of this is counterpointed with the music of David Bowie that drives the action forward and comments on the relationships -arranged and performed live by our wonderfully talented lead actor, Adolph de Beer. Creative Team: Presented by Fabrik Productions. Written and Directed by Ian Gareth Hadfield and Performed by Adolph de Beer.

Ian Gareth Hadfield, who has worked around the country in the Model and Entertainment Industries since 1989. Ian trained as an actor, dancer and writer and has appeared in TV, Film and Theatre in productions such as ‘Macbeth’, ‘My Fair Lady’, ‘Oliver!’, ‘The Little Prince’ and many more. Ian has written and directed several of his own works, including the one-man-show ‘Without You, I’m Everything’, ‘Betta Resplendes’, and ‘Gluttony’ a theatre intervention at Bean Bag Bohemia. Most recently, Ian has directed ‘for coloured girls/ who have considered suicide/ wen the rainbow is enuf…’ by Ntozake Shange at the Bat Centre in Durban.  He has also worked as a Booker for some of the top agencies in South Africa, including Boss Models, GAPA Model Agency, Tribe Model Management and Blue Star Management.  Ian has produced over 300 Fashion Shows, Product Launches and Activations for clients as diverse as DSTV, Ladine, the Pietermaritzburg School of Fashion, Lindiwe Khuzwayo, Ed Hardy, Schwarzkopf, Durban Institute of Technology and many more.  Ian has also trained thousands of students in South Africa and the UK in skills such as Modelling and Grooming; Acting Technique; and Grooming and Self-Confidence. Ian is also a constant student himself having studied subjects as diverse as Literary Theory, Western Philosophy, Life Coaching and Sports Conditioning.  In his spare time, Ian watches Murder Mysteries and Prank Shows on Youtube.

Ian has two of his own works due for production in 2016: ‘The Sin Eaters’ featuring Adolph de Beer and ‘Fraud’

Audience Responses

Intense, revealing and beautifully performed by Adolph de Beer.

Excellent production with a very powerful performance by Adolph De Beer.

Odd little preamble from the author on the value of theatre - to an audience of devoted theatre-goers! In the 1960s there were a number of plays where 4 or 5 actors onstage delivered related monologues. This piece would have been better treated that way. This isn't really a monologue at all: if anything, it's a quintuple or sextuple monologue. I couldn't keep up with who was imprecating whom for what. I thought the actor came out of it slightly better than the writer. Better to have focused on one character; this became too diffuse. Sweaty business, though. I kept wondering in which part of his anatomy a pool of sweat would form next - chest, stomach, crotch ... back of his knees, maybe?