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Wakhumbata leaves for Zim
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Phillip Banda - 13-05-2002 |
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Malawi’s drama wizards, Wakhumbata Ensemble Theatre leaves the country today for a two-week tour of Zimbabwe where the group will perform last year’s production It’s My Fault in the country’s nine provinces.
“It was our fourth production of 2001. It is an evergreen play and that is why Comrade Daves Gusha, who is Director of Rooftop Promotion of Zimbabwe, arranged the trip,” said Wakhumbata’s director Gertrude Kamkwatira, adding Gusha sourced funding for the trip from Swedish International Development Agency (Sida).
It’s My Fault tackles domestic violence, portraying women as worst culprits.
“It is a normal thing these days to see many husbands abusing their wives in many ways ranging from not fending for the family to physical torture.
“And because the wife in the play wants her husband to be loving, she seeks— with the assistance of a house servant—some love portion from a medicine man,” explains Kamkwatira.
But the transformation is too much for the wife to stomach.
“The wife only wanted the husband to stop beating her and chasing skirts. But the husband cooks, washes and irons clothes and later resigns from work to be full time with the wife,” she says.
Kamkwatira adds that because of guilt, the woman becomes mad.
“When the husband goes to the medicine man to reverse everything, he is told it is irreversible,” she explains.
She says the play will be performed in Zimbabwe as part of a campaign against violence—be against women or viceversa.
“We will also take part in the country’s social week because it will fall while we are there,” she said, adding she will make the trip together with Wongani Munthali, Huxley Kamkwatira, Jeremiah Mwaungulu and John Moyokunyenga. |
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