ARTS, CULTURE EXTENDS INVITE TO TWILIGHT THEATRE

MBABANE - splendid!

After a splendid performance and pulling in quite a crowd, Twilight Theatre Concepts was invited to visit the Eswatini National Arts and Culture offices in order to speak more about having regional plays similar to the one titled ‘Woza Albert’.The world-acclaimed theatre play titled ‘Woza Albert’ premiered on Friday evening at the Theatre Club in Mbabane, which saw a full house of attendees who were blown away by South African multi-award-winning actors Hamilton Dhlamini and Thulani Mtshweni.

The duo brought to life various characters from the apartheid era during the play, which addressed oppression, labour related issues, survival, separation of families between SA homelands and the cities, poverty, homelessness, police brutality and political imprisonment. The two talented actors kept the full house captivated with their colourful one hour and 30-minute performance. After the pair’s brilliant performance, various individuals were given the platform to address the full house and those included actor voiceover artist and 23:28 lounge owner, Thembinkhosi Mthethwa, and Eswatini National Arts and Culture CEO, Stanley Dlamini, among others.

During his speech, Dlamini stressed how other local regions were missing out on a lot of skills, especially because the second day included a workshop  where the  two SA actors trained other aspiring actors. “After watching such an amazing play and noticing that only Mbabane was going to receive such a privilege, I would like to invite Twilight Theatre Concepts to the Arts and Culture offices so we can find ways to take this play regional,” said Dlamini.

He further emphasised that this was going to give even people in rural areas an opportunity to explore such. Larry Mhlanga of Twilight Theatre Concepts and Ndlondlo Productions were thanked for bringing together the show and were encouraged to keep up the good work. The play also illuminates the logic of a plot in which South Africans seek the return of a saviour, Morena, who fulfills the biblical prophecy that Jesus Christ will return.

The play’s title means ‘Rise Albert,’ referring to the deceased leader of the African National Congress (ANC) and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli and symbolising biblical prophecies that the dead will rise to join Jesus Christ when he is resurrected. The play, which had begun exactly at 7pm, ended at 8:30pm p.m., and then fans of the actors were awarded the opportunity to take pictures with them.

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