After taking a break to give way to the Harare International Festival of Arts, Theatre in the Park resumes staging plays Saturday.
To open the second season of the theatre programme are three plays which begin on May 27 with a rare cocktail of plays Burn Mukwerekwere Burn, Colours of Dreams and The Comeback.
The plays will run three days each for the next nine days at 5.30pm everyday with each play having three performances until June 5.
“For most theatre artists, Theatre in the Park has remained the ultimate venue which exposes them to not just theatre buffs but to directors, the media, diplomats and many other contacts that push them to the next level in their careers,” said Rooftop Promotions producer, Daves Guzha.
Burn Mukwerekwere Burn, written by Blessing Hungwe and directed by Giles Ramsay, is a story of xenophobia in South Africa.
Written by the award-winning duet of Christopher Mlalazi and Eunice Tava, Colours of Dreams is based on a collapsing economy along with the dreams and needs of a school teacher, a former money-changer and their wives in Zimbabwe.
But a glimmer of hope has risen in the form of a “classified” rumour about the return of the Zimbabwe dollar that has emanated from the moneychanger’s highly-placed connections.
With this rumour also comes a re-living of the long shadows of their dreams and fears for the future as the characters start to imagine the old ways and other opportunities of making money.
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They see a new lease of life with the return of the local currency as they recall the days of “burning” and “spinning” money.
“Written by Sifiso Mabhena and directed by Leeroy Gono, The Comeback is a touching story of a young woman who returns home from the UK to rediscover herself and touch base with her roots after a miserable and rather unsuccessful stint abroad,” said Rooftop Promotions marketing and sales executive, Tafadzwa Muzondo.
A girl at the centre of the storyline wants to pick up the pieces of her broken life through a musical show in which she is starring called, The Comeback, yet she also has to deal with haunting images and memories from her not-so-rosy Diaspora experiences which she would love to forget in a hurry, but in vain.
