MagentaPro invites audiences to the 3rd
Annual IMBHEWU Festival which will run at the Stable Theatre from November 15
to 17, 2018. The festival begins at 16h00 at the Stable Theatre,
115 Johannes Nkosi Street Greyville Durban.
The Imbewu Theatre Festival is a platform to uplift young and
vibrant artist through theatre workshops and mentorship from other young
professionals in the arts. It was founded in 2014 and held at the DUT Courtyard
Theatre by Thobani Nzuza, Bonginkosi Thwala, Mnqobi Msimango and Nhlakanipho
Gamede.
The festival caters for young emerging writers, directors,
choreographers and performers. “Imbewu simply means seed, we see this festival
as a platform that explores the potential of the seed generation of Theatre”,
says Nkosingphile Dlamini.
“The Imbhewu Festival works to encourage the youth to take
further initiative in developing and studying the arts. As young artists we are
aware of the ongoing problem of not having enough platforms available to
showcase the potential and creativity displayed by new graduates. This festival
aims to empower and uplift emerging Theatre creatives to create more works and
to never be limited creatively. The emerging theatre creatives are also
encouraged to put together proposals and deliver presentations about their
pieces. All the participants will be supervised by very hard working young
theatre creatives already taking on the Theatre industry. The participants must
be in their final year of studying, new graduates and also emerging community
art groups.
There will be a guest performance by Menzi Mkhwane’s Last Cow and Lihle Nene.
Festival line up: includes the following workshops:
Dialogue on how to make your talent work for you with
Nokubonga and Nokwanda Khuzwayo, Menzi Mkhwane on Acting and directing,
Choreography workshop facilitated by Nqubeko Cue Ngema, Improvisation with the
audience by Peter Dlamini and Fezeka Shandu
PERFORMANCES:
Umagejageja
Directed by Sweety Ntshangase and performed by: Sabatha
Ngcobo, Thokozani Ngcongo, Khulekani Godlimpi and Ayanda Luthuli. The play
takes us on a journey of four men who find themselves trapped by their pasts
and issues around them, they are introduced to a mythical creature, Umagejageja,
an elite healer and spiritual revivalist without noticing that he is a spirit
that lives within all of them.
Age restriction: PG 13
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Performed by Kristi-Leigh Gresse, this piece integrates the
world of the consumption of the female body for both pleasure and power. The
artist goes on a personal journey to confront her identity that has become so
obscured as a result of having the ideologies of the system that objectifies
her consume every aspect of her lived experience. Using both visual media and
movement this piece aims to create a conversation around the idea of
self-censorship brought on by both fear and inheritances and how this is in
part feeding the very system that oppresses us.
Sight Of Interest
Devised and directed by Lihle Nene who performs with Thato
Mazwi. The production looks at absurdity of goals that consciously and
unconsciously influences our sights or perceptions by zooming into pressure
that exists through conventions, where a Man is told to marry or be married,
employ or be employed. Men follows the given circumstances but all that is
never enough. We remain empty trying to fulfil what the society wants from us
instead of what we want from ourselves. The production discusses this
self-concealing process through linear narrative journey of these two boys
(Nqubo and Mlandeli) who continuously struggles to stand on their own without a
direct balance from one another. The conflict is expanded when these boys
decides to recreate their personalities to align with the society’s
expectations.
Sins Of The Elders
Directed by: Sandile Shezi and Khulekani Mtshali
Sins of the elders is a community based story that’s tells
the story of uMbali Shozi an orphan that was left by her father and becomes a
victim of ill-treatment by her stepmother.
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Performed by Nqubeko Ngema, the piece talks about variety
issues such as how Technology/system has taken over our lives and how we now
forget our capabilities as humans. It also talks about how black people have
suffered to the extent that some of these situations feel normal in our lives.
Nostalgia
Performed by: Mona_LeeSA A feeling of pleasure and sometimes
slight sadness at the same time as you think about things that happened in the
past.
The Imbhewu Festival Team includes Nkosingiphile Dlamini; Sanelisiwe
Mbhele; Peter Dlamini; Fezeka Shandu and Lee Phila Ngamlana.
The festival is supported
by Ethekwini Municipality Arts and Living Culture.
For more information
contact Nkosingphile Dlamini on 083
611 5584 or email: duhsmall7@gmail.com
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