Jemma Kahn

WE DIDN’T COME TO
HELL FOR THE CROISSANTS

"Unique and mindblowing"

Cue Online

We Didn't Come to Hell for the Croissants is the eagerly anticipated sequel to the international cult hit The Epicene Butcher. It's a rollicking, rude interpretation of the ancient Japanese storytelling culture of kamishibai caught in a riff of South Africanisms, conjoined with one of the slickest, freshest and darkest reflections on explicit orgiastic sex, death, and all that hides in between.

"Raunchy and subversive"

Independent Online

Credits

We Didn't Come to Hell for the Croissants was developed collaboratively by the following extraordinary team.

  • Cast

    • Jemma Kahn

    • Roberto Pombo

  • Director

    • Lindiwe Matshikiza

  • Writers

    • Tertius Kapp

    • Rosa Lyster

    • Lebogang Mogashoa

    • Justin Oswald

    • Nicholas Spagnoletti

    • Louis Viljoen

  • Illustrators

    • David Jackson

    • Carlos Amato

    • Rebecca Haysom

  • Producers

    • POPArt Productions

    • 133 Arts Foundation

Images © 2022 Rebecca Haysom, Dean Hutton & Roelof van Wyk

"...a very naughty sort of burlesque-graphic-novel-cabaret style Gothic drama."

Mary Corrigall, IOL Online

Past performances

Alexander Upstairs

Alexander Upstairs

11/30/2015 - 12/03/2015

Cape Town, South Africa

Kalk Bay Theatre

Kalk Bay Theatre

12/07/2015 - 12/12/2015

Kalk Bay, South Africa

Alexander Upstairs

Alexander Upstairs

12/14/2015 - 12/19/2015

Cape Town, South Africa

National Arts Festival

National Arts Festival

06/30/2016 - 07/10/2016

Grahamstown, South Africa

Hilton Arts Festival

Hilton Arts Festival

09/16/2016 - 09/18/2016

Hilton, South Africa

Afrovibes! Festival

Afrovibes! Festival

10/01/2016 - 10/10/2016

Utrecht, Netherlands

POPArt Theatre

POPArt Theatre

12/07/2016 - 12/11/2016

Johannesburg, South Africa

POPArt Theatre

POPArt Theatre

11/23/2016 - 12/04/2016

Johannesburg, South Africa

Alexander Upstairs

Alexander Upstairs

12/05/2016 - 12/10/2016

Cape Town, South Africa

Die Parlement

Die Parlement

04/13/2017 - 04/15/2017

Oudtshoorn, South Africa

Princess Alice Hall

Princess Alice Hall

06/29/2017 - 07/09/2017

Grahamstown, South Africa

Rep Teater

Rep Teater

07/18/2017 - 07/22/2017

Bloemfontein, South Africa

Alexander Upstairs

Alexander Upstairs

07/31/2017 - 08/02/2017

Cape Town, South Africa

POPArt Theatre

POPArt Theatre

09/28/2017 - 10/01/2017

Johannesburg, South Africa