Hungwe features in own play

Hifa when he featured in a play titled “Burn Mukwerekwere Burn.”
Hungwe, who is also a theatre director of repute, wrote the play.
The play has been running at ZB Bank Reps Theatre Upstairs since the opening of Hifa and the last performance is this Saturday at 7.30pm.
The play tackles issues of alienation from one’s home country in pursuit of the proverbial El Dorado.
However, xenophobia, tribalism, violence and above all homosexuality in a foreign land scuttle the dreams.
Directed by Giles Ramsay, the play was inspired by the wave of xenophobia that swept across South Africa and claimed the lives of many expatriates in that country, including Zimbabweans.
It is about two young Zimbabweans who go to South Africa full of hopes of making it big.
But life takes a nasty twist when they are caught in a spiral of xenophobia.
Like two rats cornered by an inferno, they struggle to flee from the wave and end up asking themselves a plethora of questions that unfortunately have no answers.
They are left with no other option except to return to their native country. It is a play that show-goers should not miss.
Another talented theatre personality, the award-winning young actor John Pfumojena, stages a one-man act at ZB Bank Reps Theatre Upstairs on Friday and yesterday starting at 11.20am and 3.30pm respectively.
Supported by the British Council, “Diary of a Madman” also features two dancers from Tumbuka, Snoden Filimon and Maylene Chenjerayi to infuse the production with so much movement and rhythm.
It looks at the life of a civil servant who seems to have suddenly gone crazy owing to turmoil in his life.
This turmoil causes him to shut out everything sane in his life and start imagining things that are beyond.
Dave Carey does the sound composition and design.
Elton Mjanana and the award-winning Melissa Eveleigh, who is also the founder of Nanzikambe Arts, co-directed the play.
“Diary of a Madman” is an adaptation of a comic tale by Nikolai Gogol.