This installation, performed by (www.facebook.com/sistermaryjames), has been running since Friday 10 February 2006 in South Africa - mostly in Cape Town.
The show is CLOSED to the General Public - one has to have
met Sister Mary James in person on her nightly sojourns into bars,
restaurants, clubs etc, been approved by her as PLU (People Like Us!),
bought the tickets on the spot and confirmed by text, BBM, FB and
Twitter.
James Robert Hogan Costello II was born at the Marymount
Clinic (staffed by nuns...) in Johannesburg in 1968 and grew up mostly
in Zurich, London, NY, LA and Paris, although the family maintained an
estate in Sandton as a base for their business interests. He spent up to
2/3 of every year out of South Africa, mainly in Western Europe and the
United States. James' first public performance was as "Joseph" in a
nativity play at the age of 7 on a cruise ship; later, he was accepted
to study Theater Arts at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theater Institute
in New York City in 1993.
Whilst in New York, he worked with HBO co-hosting a Madonna
concert, performed stand-up and "Whose Line Is It Anyway"-type comedy
games and was the co-host for a New York cable TV talk show. He has also
travelled extensively, and returned to South Africa in 1995 from LA. In
2001, James hosted Gay Pride in Johannesburg to the largest ever SA
comedy audience of 18 000 people. He has numerous television, theatre,
corporate and public events credits, both in front of and behind the camera on 3 different continents.
"SISTER MARY JAMES has MASS APPEAL!" is unlike any other show,
as it melds 4 distinct genres; viz. improvisational comedy, cabaret, theatre and
traditional stand-up comedy. The show, whilst having a
structured framework, is different every week - the current record holder for an Audience Member's repeated attendance stands at 86 shows!
Click [here] for a full CV.
