DAVID KRAMER


David Kramer is one of South Africa's most recognised and successful songwriters and performers. He started out as a writer of satirical protest songs. Most of his work was banned from the air by the SABC and his famous stage persona is of the rural everyman who travels the dusty roads of small town South Africa with an old bicycle and a cheap guitar.

David has a vast audience appeal and in the last 10 years has focused mainly on theatre. In 1990 he and Renaye Kramer became partners in The Dock Road Theatre, an entertainment complex housed in an historic building on Cape Town's Waterfront development. Ninety percent of the work staged during the six years of Dock Road Theatre's existence was original South African writing, pursued without any state subsidies or grants. His successful musical Kat and The Kings toured locally and played to audiences as far afield as New York.

David recently released a CD, Classic Kramer and another called Alles Vannie Beste. He has just completed a screenplay for a film version of Poison and his latest show Karoo Kitaar Blues was a sell-out, almost every performance received a standing ovation.