Zimpapers Logo

Mbulelo Mpofu, Showbiz Reporter
LOCAL talent factory, Centre for Talent Development (CTD) is bringing relief to students through conducting performance-based workshops.

The workshops targeting O and A-level students will see literature books being adapted to plays to help students understand and be able to analyse their set IsiNdebele and English literature set books.

CTD, led by Thabani Hillary Moyo will from September 13 to 16 stage plays at the Bulawayo Theatre, CTD media relations officer Trevor Mawaka has confirmed.

Bulawayo Theatre

Mawaka said the initiative is to help students understand more about what their set books entail.

“The idea behind this initiative is to take literature books and make plays out of them. This will help students to have a visual understanding of what the book is about. After the plays, we’ll have a plenary review of what the students would have watched.

“We’ll have a festival of these plays at the Bulawayo Theatre later on this month,” said Mawaka.

The festival is set to commence with an O-level Literature in IsiNdebele performance-based workshop and will be followed by plays adapted from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, George Mujajati’s The rain of my blood and Raisedon Baya’s Super Patriots and Morons among other books.

Bulawayo will be the latest detour taken by CTD as the organisation has so far travelled to Lupane, Gweru and Harare.

Mawaka also outlined plans for the organisation and said the goal is to cover the entire country, commencing with Matabeleland and Midlands provinces.

“After this festival, we’ll continue taking the plays right around the country. We’ll start with the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces,” he said.

Centre for Talent Development (CTD)

For so many years, schools around the city have made the Bulawayo Theatre their preferred venue for the staging of set plays to help students grasp concepts, plots, and set book characters better. – @eMKlass_49