Marié du Toit and Bram Potgieter present “CRAZY - Golden Oldies with a touch of Bipolar”, a cabaret featuring popular songs from yesteryear presented with a mental twist. Golden oldies are skillfully woven together with Marié’s rich husky voice and tongue-in-cheek accounts of living life with Bipolar as she is superbly accompanied by Bram who brings his distinctive jazz flare to the stage. “CRAZY” will have you laughing, crying and tapping your feet.   Come and enjoy a highly entertaining and supremely enlightening performance.  Inspired by an unwavering love for songs from the Golden era, and her own personal battle with Bipolar Mood Disorder, Marié du Toit teams up with Bram Potgieter to bring you their brand new cabaret, “CRAZY - Golden Oldies with a touch of Bipolar”. The show takes a light-hearted look at the crazy highs and lows of a mental disorder and features great old favourites such as “Unforgettable”, “Cabaret”, “Mack the Knife” and “Blueberry Hill”, masterfully adapted to illustrate the Bipolar theme. 

Marié du Toit was born in New York, USA. She grew up in America, South Africa, Australia and Germany, and returned to South Africa in 1986 to complete her BA drama at the University of Pretoria. Marié entered the Afrikaans music industry after winning the SABC Afrikaans singing competition “Debuut ‘89”. She later joined verteran artists, Jannie du Toit and Christa Steyn in the stage production “Skadu’s”, and recorded her solo album “In Transito”. In the late 90s Marié released her Afrikaans Gospel CDs “Op Pad” and “Maak oop die Deur” and toured with her one-woman show “Op Pad Sonder Bagasie”. She spent the following years freelancing as a performing artist and teacher of drama and music appreciation. Marié, who had been battling depression since childhood, was diagnosed with Bipolar Mood Disorder in 2008. Her singing career came to a halt when she was hospitalised and obligated to get fulltime treatment. She has since kept a low profile from the public eye, working behind the scenes as a script- and song writer, instructor and voice artist. Marié teams up with pianist Bram Potgieter and returns to the stage with her cabaret “CRAZY - Golden Oldies with a touch of Bipolar”.

Audience Responses

Crazy was a musical of the highest standard. The theme was relevant and interesting, besides humorous, the singing very good and the accompaniment by Bram Potgieter was brilliant. It was our first visit to the Drama Factory - congratulations and thanks for establishing this remarkable venue - a pity rather few people appreciate such good music while hordes flock to listen to substandard, if not atrocious, music shows.

The songs chosen to illustrate being bi-polar were very clever and enjoyable. All in all it was very educational -- a fun way to learn about being bi-polar. A pity so few people were there but I think it might have been because the Starlight Classics were on at Vergelegen Wine Farm and also the Woordfees had many concerts in Stellenbosch on Sat night.

Absolutely brilliant - just such a pity only a handful were there to enjoy it. A brave and sincere performance.

very touching,an accomplished artists, but went on a bit long