EDZAI Isu Theatre Arts Project in partnership with Heal Zimbabwe Trust will tonight premiere a potentially charged play, After Flashbacks and Setbacks, at Harare’s Theatre in the Park.
BY TAPIWA ZIVIRA
The play, which is likely to touch political nerves, speaks to Zimbabwe’s painful road to healing and reconciliation.
Featuring in the play is an array of talented theatre practitioners who include director and producer Tafadzwa Muzondo, choreographer Gibson Sarari and poet Mbizo Chirasha, Brezhnev Guveya, Julius Julius, Livius Chitsungo, Charlotte Munyanyi, Samantha Ndlovu and Charles Biniweri.
“After Flashbacks and Setbacks is a powerful fusion of drama, dance, poetry and music looking beyond the flashbacks and setbacks, emotions and frustrations, individual interests and political resistance, questions and suggestions thus establishing a live platform where people determine what healing and reconciliation means to them, considering their particular circumstances,” Muzondo said.
According to the play’s synopsis, the present frustrations are to be linked to the painful emotions of the past where Zimbabweans were traumatised in various events that include the liberation struggle, Gukurahundi, political violence, among many other political and social upheavals that the country experienced.
In the end, the play brings out the ambitions for a peaceful and fruitful country.
