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Simbarashe Mutizwa Showbiz Reporter
AMAKHOSI Cultural Centre’s Plays on Sunday programme for this year ends next month as the centre paves way for the 9th edition of the Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo scheduled for September 23 to 27.
The Plays on Sunday programme was launched at Amakhosi in November last year as an initiative to give space to up and coming playwrights, actors and actresses to showcase their works.
Amakhosi programmes manager Thulani Mbambo said:
“Adrian Moyo from Gwanda will be coming in with his play titled Inmate, Langelihle Tshuma with Cry of an Orphan, Brain Banda with The Dream.
“My play titled Pains and Chains will mark the end of the Plays on Sunday programme,” he said.
Mbambo said the end of Plays on Sunday would mark the beginning of Theatre Upstairs. Theatre Upstairs will stretch until the year ends.
“We will switch on Theatre Upstairs at Amakhosi after Intwasa. These shows will have a full run that entail plays that stretch for two to three days. They will be showcased weekly,” he said.
This Sunday, Tracy Dube a third-year fine arts student with the University of Botswana will be showcasing her production Human Trafficking at Amakhosi Theatre.
Dube said her play was based on the true goings-on in society where people have become victims of human trafficking.
“The play is centred on the true happenings in the society where people are not attending to serious issues that are extremely affecting our society.
“These are the things that are killing us every day and yet we do not notice as we choose not to care,” she said.
The Plays on Sunday have become a permanent feature on the cultural centre’s calendar and a number of plays have been showcased since January. Among these plays are Stop the power to start, Uproot the rot and Sweet Mother by Scrah Mdala, Kahleni Bo by Thembekile Nkomazana, and Kolobeja and Flat Dwellers by Raisedon Baya.
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