The Mock Wedding - Abe & Solly Krok (caricatures of SA Jewish Businessmen - late 1980's early '90s)

Solly and Abe Krok started the charity initiative "Mock Wedding," a satirical musical parody show starring some of the largest business luminaries in the country. Solly played the role of groom and his identical twin Abe played his alter-ego. Directed and choreographed by the famous theatrical team of Louis Berk and Joan Brickhill, the show ran to packed audiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town, raising significant funds for community organisations.

Mock Wedding came about after Solly and Abe Krok approached Joan Brickhill to do a razzmatazz show for charity. The script calls for a matchmaker running a dating agency called " Dates and Mates, Chabers and Lovers", who escorts a client around the world, meeting a succession of more or less grotesque candidate wives, including Cleopadla, Nufka (w***e) of the Nile.

The parts were all played by men, including the Krok twins, furniture king Eric Ellerine and other pillars of the Jewish establishment who happily sacrificed their dignity for charity. It was one of the most risqué productions yet seen in Johannesburg, certainly in the Jewish community and  was a huge success and kept going, on and off, for eight years.

A slice of South African social history.