The venue was filled to the brim, and at the end of the show many in the audience cried. Such was the emotional atmosphere that engulfed the auditorium during the play, Yours abundantly, from Zimbabwe. The Zane Lucas, directed play was a gem. It explored the difficulties and challenging experiences that Zimbabwe has encountered during the past five years. Londoner, Nell Porter (played by NAMA and AFDIS award winning actress Anne Fischer), is passionate about assisting people in Zimbabwe to go through the harsh times be-devilling the country but her daughter Georgia is against the idea. Porter has been to Zimbabwe before and knows the situation, but Georgia knows the country only through the medias portrayal.
Their mother-daughter relationship is heavily strained when Porter tells Georgia that she wants to go and teach in Zimbabwe. For Georgia, Zimbabwe is a dangerous destination, but her mother sees the plight and suffering of vulnerable villagers in remote parts of the country. Since visiting a village in Zimbabwe, Porter starts receiving letters from the friends she made there. The situation seems to be worsening with each day and there is an urgent need for assistance. Juxtaposed to their London home site on the stage is a sorrowful state of a Zimbabwean village, stormed with people who have left the city in the aftermath of the murambatsvina operation. Through the letters she receives Porter learns of the deteriorating education system and somber living conditions. Starvation and poverty are the order of the day.
Although she finally manages to travel to Zimbabwe, Porters arrival does not help matters. All the people she supported from abroad meet tragic fortunes. The school child she has assisted dies while trying to cross to South Africa, his mother is murdered for staging a protest against the government while many others have died of disease and neglect. The headmaster of the school she joins is also arrested for bringing in a foreigner for the purpose of regime change and he dies in incarceration. Great play Zane!