Masvingo Drama Circle has been invited to participate in the KwaZulu Natal Film Festival, which takes place in December 2013.
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This comes after a successful performance of the drama circle’s play at the Isigcawu Theatre in Durban two weeks ago.
After the KwaZulu Natal Festival, the play is also expected to show early next week at Reps Theatre in Harare and in the Netherlands early next year.
Leeroy Gono, the artistic director of Charles Austin Theatre said the tour was an eye-opening experience at Isigcawu.
“It has been an eye-opening experience and Zimbabwe has been truly represented,” he said.
“There were over 30 productions from all over South Africa, two productions from Holland and one from Zimbabwe. When we took to the stage, there was anticipation from the audience, as the play had been widely marketed.
“The audience was taken on a journey that left them in total awe.”
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Gono said the play became the toast of the Festival, receiving applause from the festival director, Edmund Mhlongo.
“We are very proud of our new partnership and we will continue being committed to it because there is so much we can share and learn from each other,” said Mhlongo.
Gono said a new partnership has been established between Masvingo Drama Circle and K-Cap Centre in Durban which will see the two producing a play together that will tour Europe.
The project will see three Zimbabwean actors going on an intense training programme in Durban along with three South African actors to produce a play that will premiere in March next year and tour the world.
“In January 2014, Zimbabwe-born Zodwa Nyoni, who is now based in the United Kingdom and a renowned business consultant Annamaria, will be working with the team preparing them for their production,” said Gono.
“This has been a long time coming, the exposure and experience that this will bring is beyond our imagination.”
He said they are also looking at collaborating to fusing the play with poetry with a group from Gauteng in South Africa which they met at the festival.
“We are hoping to stage that performance at Ibumba and Hifa next year. The director of the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam Holland, Eugene van Erven is keen on having our production at his festival early next year,” he said.
