(Musa
Ntuli & Nompilo Maphumulu)
Durban’s innovative Stable Theatre proudly
presents The Weeping Candle, an
acclaimed two-hander by upcoming theatre personality Wiseman Mncube, from March
1 to 3.
The
Weeping Candle, a hard-hitting drama starring
Nompilo Maphumulu and Musa Ntuli, comes to Stable Theatre for a limited season
next month. The play scooped the Best Production and Best Script Awards at
Khaya Multi-Art Centre in KwaMashu during the isiGcawu Festival in November
2012.
“The
Weeping Candle is about the past coming back to haunt you,” says playwright
and director Mncube about his production. “The truth always has a way of coming
out. The show’s message reinforces the moral, ‘do unto others as you would want
them to do to you’, underlining the truism that every wrong deed you commit
impacts destructively on someone else’s life.”
The
Weeping Candle’s plot depicts a shebeen queen who
sees a young man strolling around her shebeen after hours. The man insists on
having only two beers after a hectic game he’s just played. Is he there to have
the beer? Why has he come in at that time, since he knows she is closed? What
unfolds is a complex story that reveals the intentions of the young.
Wiseman Mncube, a 2011 Drama graduate of
Durban University of Technology (DUT), was voted Best Actor and also won the
Standing Ovation Award for his performance in Samson Mlambo’s one-hander, Meet Bra 62, at Durban’s 2012 Musho
Festival. Other stage credits last year included performing in Horn of Sorrow at the Hilton Arts
Festival and in Musa Hlatshwayo’s dance piece, Zulu no Qwabe, at The Playhouse. He was voted Best New Comer at
last year’s Mercury Durban Theatre Awards.
Musa Ntuli, another DUT drama graduate,
counts among his recent stage credits, appearances in Paul Rudman van Wyk’s Behind The Curtain of Justice during
this year’s Musho Festival. He also performed in Essop Khan’s production, Front Page News, which toured South
Africa last year, and appeared in Sandy Bigara’s Animal Tales at the Catalina Theatre.
Nompilo Maphumulu won the Best Actress
Award for her performance in K-Cap’s production, The Serpent’s Tail, in 2011, and was placed 2nd overall among the
actors who participated in that year’s isiGcawu Festival. This success was
consolidated by the powerful impact the gifted young actress made when the
production was mounted during last April’s Community Arts Festival at The
Playhouse.
The
Weeping Candle runs on March 1 and 2 at 18h00 with a further performance on March 3 at 14h00. The
show’s duration is 45 minutes. Tickets R45 booked through Computicket 0861 915
8000 or online at www.computicket.com.
The Weeping Candle is not for people
under 16 years.
Stable Theatre gratefully acknowledges
support from Ethekwini Municipality and the KZN Department of Arts &
Culture.
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