The Rooftop Promotions team of the National Arts Merit Awards nominated best theatrical production for 2010, Rituals was detained and arrested last night in Centenary, Mashonaland Central Province of Zimbabwe.
Among those arrested are NAMA nominees for the same production in best actor (Mandla Moyo) and actress (Joyce Mpofu). The charges are still very sketchy. Rituals, written by award winning author and doyen of the theatre industry, Stephen Chifunyise is a story on how community initiated solutions to healing and reconciliation meet serious resistance with political processes. This is the second time the cast has been arrested after previous.
UPDATE:- With our esteemed lawyer, Alec Muchadehama (courtesy of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights), we are now at Bindura Police Station where they have been brought in at 7am and for the last three hours we have not yet spoken to them and attempts to give them food are being blocked. Most of the police are busy watching our 3 videos of Waiting for Constitution, Heal The Wounds and Rituals. FINALLY WE HAVE AN AUDIENCE FOR OUR WORK!!! HOW STRANGE
RITUALS is Directed and Produced by: Daves Guzha and other cast members are:- Chipo Bizure, Rutendo Chigudu, Silvanos Mudzvova, Zenzo Nyathi, Joshua Mwase and Tongai
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