Playwright seeks Sotambe UK USA trip sponsorship
By KELVIN KACHINGWEVETERAN playwright Light Musonda is looking for actors, actresses and sponsorship for his project in which he will stage a local festival involving seven plays he hopes he can eventually tour the United Kingdom and the United States with.
The programme is under the patronage of the Theatre Arts Study Tour International (TASTI) and has been dubbed ‘Sotambe UK-USA Bound Theatre Showcase.’
The festival will feature seven unpublished plays by Light Musonda which include A Man As Good As Me, Promises and Promises, Change, My In-laws Are Goats, Simply Shocking, A Ripe Sweet Fruit and Love-knot.
Of these plays, perhaps his best-known is A Man As Good As Me, which he wrote in 1979, and is about religious hypocrisy as well as violence against men.
The play, which has done rounds in several theatre houses, is a two-man play in which a woman, although none features in it, demands her rights after getting fed-up with her man.
But that is not his major concern for now. First, he wants his seven-play festival to materialise, as he believes that is the key to the UK-USA tour programme. Specifically, he wants actors and actresses with ambitions of getting into drama schools to horn their artistic skills.
In total, Light Musonda, is looking for 17 actors and actresses, whom he believes will greatly benefit from the project should everything fall into place.
Meanwhile, ZANASE are expected to get back to the stage on August 27 and 28 with the Joemwa Mtsinje Mwale-written play, The Wives, to be directed by Nicholas Kawinga.
The K30, 000-per-person show which will be staged at the Lusaka Playhouse, will be the first for the group since staging The Dress about three months ago.
The staging of The Wives means Premier Art and Productions, who were eying the same dates for their John Ntulisha-written play Junior, will have to come up with alternative days. Junior was also supposed to be directed by Joemwa.
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