Explicit ‘Sinners’ opens at Theatre in the Park

seducing men for a living, they will now rape them and sell their semen to sperm banks.
This is the story line of a play titled “Sinners” that opened at Theatre in the Park on Tuesday. The story’s delicate yet explicit subject matter is delivered in-your-face by a cast of Zimbabwe’s A-list actresses Eunice Tava, Charity Dlodlo and Gertrude Munhamo.

Based on a true story about a man who was traumatised after being abducted and raped by a gang of women, the play was written by Patrick Chasaya.
In the play, Tava, Dlodlo and Munhamo act as three prostitutes, Keresensia, Chipo and Samantha respectively. The three women discuss the challenges in their lives, including boyfriends, former husbands and difficult

customers. They also dream that one day they would own houses, get married and settle down. But first they must make the dollars and therein lies their major challenge – business is slow. So they decide to abduct men under the guise of offering them lifts on long-distance trips and then drugging them so that they can sexually excite them and collect their semen for sale to a buyer who is willing to pay a lot of money for it. Their new venture doesn’t go well and in the end they find that they are back where they started.

The play also sees the new set-up of Theatre in the Park to bring the audience closer to the set and making them a part of the production. During the performance Keresensia, Chipo and Samantha attempt to seduce men in the audience by sitting on their laps, proffer their rears and caress legs, creating some genuinely funny, hot and uncomfortable moments in the park.

In an interview after the show, Dlodlo whose husband watched the premiere and enjoyed it, said she had no problems with her role.
“I love playing challenging roles and when I saw the script I wanted to do it,” she said.

Tava, whose husband also watched the première, said she enjoyed the play and took it as work, which needed to be done.
Munhamo echoed the same sentiment. “I had to take it up as an actress. It was explicit but I had to do what I could. You would do anything for your talent, won’t you?”

Director of the play Daves Guzha said he initially asked himself if, as a man, he was the right person for the job.
The play was produced with the support of the British Council whose director, Jill Coates, was present and commented that she loved it as it tackled a difficult subject matter.
“Sinners” runs at Theatre in the Park until July 9 with performances at 5:30pm everyday except on Sundays and Mondays. The play should be rated 18 because of the explicit content. – Zimbojam/Entertainment Reporter.
It is a provocative look at a number of controversial issues that people often like to avoid, for instance, the reality of prostitution, infidelity in marriage and sexual desires of women.