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last Saturday at Amakhosi Elite 400 in Bulawayo.
The show follows the successful run of “Mother Courage” and one of the last shows to grace the Amakhosi Winter season, which ends in early August.

Amakhosi Elite 400 executive producer Cont Mhlanga said the show would run for only a day.
Dr Manzuma and the Vipers was written and directed by Sibenke.

The play is a painful mystery of how three sons fight each other for the wealth of their father who has “passed away”.
The boys are shocked by their father’s sudden return as they had already made plans on how to share his wealth and this makes their father (Godrey) disgraced by their actions.

Sibenke’s theatre career spans over four decades.
He founded the Mashonaland Art Drama and Cultural Association (MADACA) in 1978 and The People’s Company in 1982.

He has written and directed several stage and television plays that include “Mwanangu Mhekiya”, “Afa Afa Asara Asara”, “Chidembo Chanhuhwa”, and won several awards for his play “My Uncle Grey Bhonzo” (published by Longman Zimbabwe).

Sibenke has also has took part in the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
He was one of 18 theatre directors, producers, playwrights, actors, critics and drama professors from 17 countries that visited the United States under the International Visitor Programme which provided them with a comprehensive overview of theatre in the United States.

Sibenke is the director and founder of the Midnight Shift Arts Project (MSAP).