Rooftop Promotions, based at Theatre in the Park in Harare, Zimbabwe, in association with Mwezi Arts this weekend brings to the Malawian audience a play titled Song Unburied at Madsoc Theatre in Lilongwe.
The play written by Panashe Chigumadzi and produced and directed by Daves Guzha has been rated AA by the Censorship Board. Featuring a cast of Charmaine Munjeri, Dalma Chiwereva, Tinevimbo Chimbetete and music by Abel Mafuleni, the production premieres tomorrow evening before its rerun on Sunday.
Hazel Mambo from Mwezi Arts said on Thursday that they were happy to host Song Unburied at Madsoc Theatre.
“This is a production which so far has been performed in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Comoros and now it is here in Malawi. We call upon theatre lovers to patronise the production on Saturday (tomorrow) and Sunday,” Mambo said.
Guzha said they were ready to give theatre lovers in the country a treat. Song Unburied is an intergenerational story of re-memory, re-remembering and reparation following the troubled spirit of the British Museum’s newly appointed First Black Curator, Rambisayi Mangosho, as she discovers the bones of anti-colonial heroine Mbuya Nehanda in its basement.
Just before Rambi begins her new appointment at the museum, her grandmother – the only one who knew what to do with her troubling dreams – passes.
Unable to return to Zimbabwe to bury her grandmother, Rambi buries herself in the diversity and inclusion work of the museum which has cynically hired her in the wake of historic protest and contestation.
As she begins work on the Great African Civilization’s exhibition, she finds solace and guidance in the company of Tsitsi, a war veteran who has been the museum’s caretaker since gaining asylum in the United Kingdom.
