Gathecha Kamau
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Reasons for the Villages of Kenya
July 11, 2004 - 11:47 AM
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REASONS FOR THE VILLAGES OF KENYA
We are similar as we are different
Reason for the festival
With the 42 communities in Kenya, it has been easy to see one another as 42 different peoples, languages, views, ideas, values, traditions, cultures: the list can go on. This has bred negative traits in a lot of us. We have witnessed negative relations between ourselves. Because and according to our different tribes, our lives have taken a certain approach:
many have been favoured or disfavored,
animosity has been red,
sharp opinions have been developed,
hatred has been cultivated,
discrimination has been perfected
futures have been decided
economy has been mapped
……....the list can go on and on.
The country Kenya has, thus been administered with such numerous differences unconsciously being campaigned for. In essence, the society has been on a wrong track all along because of that misguidance.
For this reason, Heartstrings Kenya will go all out to highlight the valuable similarities, which exist between Kenyan communities. The positive attributes between us are our highlight. To do this, we are using the real ethnic tongue, which is one dynamic similarity we have.
On one platform, different communities will find themselves discovering just how similar they are, by being different.
This, thus, is the drive that has pushed Heartstrings Kenya to make this noble move of showing just how similar we are, by being different.
Program of the project
Kamba play 30, 31 July, 1 August 2004 (5 shows)
Luhya Play 6, 7, 8 August 2004 (5 shows)
Luo Play 13, 14, 15 August 2004 (5 shows)
Kikuyu Play 20, 21, 22 August 2004 (5 shows)
Kiswahili Play 27, 28, 29 August 2004 (5 shows)
Nikivite, (IT'S BURNT), a play in Kamba directed by
Samwel Mwangi).
This part of the festival will tackle very delicately the interpersonal relationships that have continued to crumble owing to pride. This hilarious piece will bring forth the beautiful ladies with empty heads, the successful men with sad faces, liberal parents with confused future.
Olenyala hano tawe, (DON'T PEE THERE), a play in Luhya directed by Ken Waudo. This ever-hilarious comedy is set up in a traditional Western Kenya community that has set three men against one another with the aim of milking from them the highest bride price for the only beautiful and learned girl of the village. Amid rib tickling situations, the girl will manage to marry her city-born boyfriend as the greedy extended family is left without a cent.
Magdalina leng’ na, (MAGDALENE, MOVE OVER), a play in Luo directed by Victor Ber. It will be one of the fastest comedies of the festival as domestic force. A modern setting with the world’s most perfect couple, is about to be raffled up when the wife suddenly decides that perfection is imperfect and goes out to find this mysterious ‘monster’ that could knock any time. The wife has the greatest fear of the unknown. The husband who is the provider of this perfect life, will have to double his efforts to ensure that he keeps up the life as fake as it has been.
Maitho matatu (THREE EYES), a play in Kikuyu directed by Samwel Mwangi. Beatrice disguised as a man secretly comes to seek the killer of her fiancé. On arrival the family of the fiancé find this as a perfect chance for their daughter Grace to finally get married. Beatrice will have to disclose her identity and fix Grace into all this. For one and a half hours, this adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s ‘Servant of Two Masters’ will leave ribs in shatters as more and more people are brought into the plot. This climaxes to the explosive revelation by the ever-clumsy servant who is servant to both Beatrice and Grace.
Dreams za Yosefu, a play in Kiswahili will be the festival’s grand finale directed by Victor Ber. This society has dramatically taken a way of life that has been brought about by the nature of people, places, behaviours, characters, politics, etc. This festival's grand finale will definitely be the curtaindowner in its nature as a sidesplitting satire. It is told through the ever-popular Bible story of Joseph and his brothers. The story has been pasted on to this society to bring out a mirror that the public will see itself through. They will laugh, cry etc. but the reflection will remain.
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