LOCAL arts production and management organisation, Rooftop Promotions today hosts auditions to select eight actors to be featured in a Zambian production called A love Song for the Impotent Son-in-Law set to be staged in the country soon.
BY WINSTONE ANTONIO
In an interview with NewsDay yesterday, Rooftop Promotions publicist Robert Tapfumaneyi said the auditions set for Theatre in The Park, Harare Gardens are in line with their efforts of programming to bring several productions from the Sadc region to local theatre.
“At tomorrow’s (today) auditions, we want to select four females aged between 30 and 55 years, and four male actors aged between 30 and 35 years, who will feature in our forthcoming Zambian play called A Love Song for the Impotent Son-in-Law written by Samuel Kasanka Phiri and Henry Joe Sakala, both Zambians, as we want to change the names in the play to our local vernacular,” he said.
“The production is from Zambia and was first staged in that country. Rooftop Promotions, in partnership with the Zambian writers, will be bringing the play to the local audience.” The play’s synopsis is about Set Kambayaya, whose marriage to Miria fails to produce a child, making him the butt of cruel jokes and taunts, particularly from his mother-in-law and his wife’s other relatives, who believe he is barren.
For Kambayaya, it appears history was haunting him, reminding and punishing him for an unwise decision in his youth when he denied responsibility for impregnating his then girlfriend, whose child he now seeks custody of, if only to prove to all he is not the impotent and infertile man everybody strongly believes him to be.
Meanwhile, Tapfumaneyi said they are bringing back a local play titled The Past is For The Future, a two-cast production featuring veteran actress Eunice Tava and Lisa Gutu to Theatre in the Park running from tomorrow to Saturday.
The emotional play that talks about determination and love one can create from a tragic past for a positive future was written by renowned playwright, Stephen Chifunyise.
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The play is about a young orphan, who was dumped and when she grew up she wanted to be an actor.
The woman, who “dumped” the child, had been very supportive of the orphanage. As the intriguing play progresses the past is unearthed, as the two women try to find each other.
Gutu, who features as Ruvarashe, wants justice to take its course while, Tava who plays Dorothy Muchena’s character, is afraid that this route will not do good for anyone, but will hurt everyone involved in the whole “rape and baby dumping” saga.
