In Tonderai Munyevu’s “Mugabe, My Dad & Me,” The Personal Becomes the Political
There are two in one Tonderai Munyevus. I meet both of them on a snowy February evening at Brixton...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 29th Apr 2022 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, Zimbabwe
There are two in one Tonderai Munyevus. I meet both of them on a snowy February evening at Brixton...
Read MorePosted by The African Theatre Magazine | 15th May 2021 | Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, News, Nigeria, South Africa, Theatre and Gender, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe
In most parts of Traditional Africa, theatre was a prerogative of the woman. Women were the...
Read MorePosted by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | 29th Jul 2020 | Interview, Theatre and Politics, Zimbabwe
As the name implies, physical theatre is more like a contact sport. Actors have to constantly...
Read MorePosted by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | 26th Jul 2020 | Management, News, Zimbabwe
Funding in Zimbabwean Theatre is a key challenge. There is no doubt that if one were to do an...
Read MorePosted by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | 22nd Jun 2020 | Covid-19, Essay, Transmedia, Zimbabwe
On Thursday, June 4th, Jasen Mphepo Little Theatre in Zimbabwe showcased the first of many shows...
Read MorePosted by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | 17th Jun 2020 | Covid-19, Interview, Zimbabwe
The coronavirus pandemic has completely reconfigured society’s world over. Health experts say the...
Read MorePosted by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | 25th May 2020 | Festivals, Interview, Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwean theatre practitioner Stephen Joel Chifunyise passed on last year, Theatre in The...
Read MorePosted by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | 31st Dec 2019 | Interview, Zimbabwe
She is daring, adroit and has amazing stage presence. Whenever she is part of the cast, she gets...
Read MorePosted by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | 8th Oct 2019 | Management, News, Zimbabwe
The construction of performance spaces for creatives in Zimbabwe has been somewhat on the slow...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Joel Chifunyise | 25th Sep 2019 | Africa, News, Zimbabwe
In 2015, I met with the late Stephen Chifunyise at the New Partnership for Africa’s Development...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Ravengai | 22nd Sep 2019 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, Zimbabwe
The late Stephen Chifunyise rarely wrote about politics. He was more fascinated with social issues...
Read MorePosted by Takudzwa Chihambakwe | 20th Sep 2019 | Acting, Interview, Zimbabwe
The theatre vibe in Zimbabwe is really subdued at the moment. The vanguards have reached their...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Ravengai | 10th Aug 2019 | News, Playwriting, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Stephen Chifunyise’s death At about 1830hrs on Monday, 5 August 2019, Stephen Joel Chifunyise...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Ravengai | 5th May 2019 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, Zimbabwe
In the last nine years, at various forums initiated either by government agents such as National...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Nderitu | 21st Feb 2019 | Festivals, News, Zimbabwe
One of the first indications of the change in political temperatures was the production of the hilarious stage play ‘Operation Restore Legacy’ which re-imagines the military takeover in Harare that ended one of Africa’s longest and most controversial presidential tenures.
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