HARARE - As promised, Theatre in the Park is opening 365, a play on gender violence that was initially meat to open on March 1, 2011, a week later on March 8.The play will feature veteran actor Sebastian Maramba, Tinashe Chirisa – upcoming actor and young brother to Zimbabwes Holywood export (Arnold Chirisa), stage and screen actresses, Charity Dlodlo and Evangelista Mwatse as well as new kid on the block UZ theatre graduate Rumbidzai Karize. The play runs for the public from 9 to 26 March 2011 at 5.30pm everyday except for Sundays and Mondays.
365 is a hilarious piece with a serious critique of gender imbalance and violence advocating for not just 16 days but 365 days of activism against gender violence. Living with an abusive husband puts a submissive wife at a dilemma of what kind of woman she has to mould her daughter into. Having been brought up in a patriarchal society, she fears passing that to her daughter at the same time fearing that her seemingly fearless and carefree daughter might not be marriage material.
On the other hand, the son in the family wants to be the opposite of his father, but his soft heart is considered unmanly and his passion for equality is misconstrued. When he does dishes, cleans the house and do some women chores to give his sister time to study for her examinations, he gets rebuked by his father who labels him a woman in a mans body
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