I started going to
Solomonic peacocks theater two years ago because of my friends Fumban and
Wiseman whom l have known in around 2012 at Nyamitambo arts palace, we were
doing English stage drama but let’s save more about Nyamitambo arts palace for
another time. In the last two years my presence at solomonic had been on and off
mainly because of school since I am now pursuing my first degree at the
university of Malawi Chancellor College and am going in my final year so I
usually go to solomonic during holidays
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| Vitu pose at Show |
My journey at solomonic
have been so far great mainly because of experience am getting interms of
theatrical performances, sorry I forget to tell you that I am majoring in drama
and minoring in philosophy hence theatre has been part of me and the experience
I obtained from solomonic during holidays has been just awesome for my career
as an actor, director and a script writer. In my school we learn a lot of things
theoretically but we luck that punch of doing the same stuff on the ground and Solomonic
has been helping me how I can implement what I have learnt in class into
practical. Mr matukuta and the whole solomonic management trusted me and my colleague
Dalistani Alsemo to help our friends on script writing and theater for
development and I handled the latter.
Theater for
development is now one of the most flourishing theater in developing countries
including Malawi and a lot of organisation are using it to spread messages
across the country. I studied theater for development three years ago when I
was in my 2nd year and I have been going out with different organisation
like CREECOM, Arts and Global health centre Africa, Africa cooperation for community
development and other as a TFD troop member and a facilitator. As a facilitator
I usually meet with drama club members in different areas and most of the club
members I have worked with are primary school dropout but this was not the case
with solomonic were the majority of the members have secondary certificate and
are now pursuing diplomas and degrees in different colleges.
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| Theatre For Development by Mapeacoks Theatre Class |
When Mr Matukuta
approach me to help my colleagues on TFD my body filled with fear for unknown
reasons but my main worry was that the people whom am about to take my lesson
to are my friends, moreover to teacher someone (Fumbani) who introduced me into
acting and he is quite experience script writing of which to I have to went the
corridors of university of Malawi in order to be a script writer. So the
question I was having in my mind was “are they going to listen to me and take
me serious?” the other worry was that almost all the members were my age mates and
you know how we youth underage each other regardless of the message. So I went
home and prepare for my lesson and the next time I come it was boom!! I killed
it all the fears went abroad and there I was in front of the whole members’ transferring
my knowledge of the TFD to people who only about less than 20% knew about TFD
as show during the pre evaluation. I must admit here I enjoyed my lesson
because the participants were very active, people who were eager to know and I
remember they could shower me with questions so that they should really
understand the whole concepts of TFD and I really enjoyed it.
I didn’t have really time to fixture in
their plays but I can testify here that the time I was there doing there practise
for plays like Romeo and Juliet, A children play for St Patrick’s, the
sensitization play on HIV testing and treatment were all moments to be
cherished because I learnt a lot as a theatre practitioner and as an individual
since I encountered with different people with different back ground. Lastly I
want to thank the management and the whole Solomonic team for the great time I
have with them, I can’t wait for another holiday to come here again. 
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