MAPEACOCKS CAUGHT DURING WORLD THEATRE DAY

Mapeacocks working with students

Mapeacocks back on set with aware and fair project which is collaborative with secondary schools, 2018 approaches with silent mode but on the ground were so underlined with a lot of work to do. As the world theatre day for children and young, Mapeacocks were in several activities related to theatre for young audience TYA. On 20^th March across the celebrate theatre practitioners recognize this day for children and young people going down to this year’s theme “Take a child to theatre” the celebration run for a week.

Lydia Banda Directing pupils from Chichiri Primary

Solomonic decided to use this day to prepare different activities for children and young people, on 29^th March two day after world theatre day, this Malawian prominent theatre will be stage a production with children from Chichiri primary school. They play is being directed by young people from Solomonic peacocks theatre which talk more of protecting the girl child. These youngsters from Solomonic they are still working to improve the standards of theatre for children. From working primary students of Chichiri primary school they venture into another production under Aware and Fair project

on youth acts for youth 2018 International formerly known as Fair culture festival to place in Hannover, Germany.

It is the second time for Mapeacocks to be involved in this project, in 2013 they travelled with Chichiri secondary school to Hannover, Germany where they stage the play in titled “The lost key” late in 2015 they travelled with same school to Young Malta festival in Poland. Mapeacocks realize the goodness with children as a great tool of keeping next generation theatre alive. McArthur Matukuta has been working these youngster immediately after they graduate from high school through Solomonic theatre class where they conduct several project like theatre for education and mindset project.

Fumban Phiri helping the students in sketching the play

“We need to do a lot for children living in far-flung rural villages, for children living in inner-city poverty, to experience theatre so that they can get exposed, there have to be other options. And this kind of transformation can make a profound difference to their experience of the world” Fumban Phiri explained.

Aware & Fair Project skeching

As little has been done by our government to improving theatre for children and young people where theatre is always about transformation. Its capacity to transform a space of ordinariness and even crisis, into a place where the imagination is activated and unexpected possibilities unfold, is unique. It offers a moment in which children can experience powerful social change in action. Here they can see that change is possible. That magic can come from the mundane. That joy can be found even in the most deprived of spaces. The quality of a theatre experience that achieves this miracle is not less than one which allows us to take flight in a specially designed cocoon, with technology and design fully at our disposal quoted from Yvette Hardie president for ASSITEJ International.

The Aware and Fare project is being executed with students from four secondary schools in Blantyre; Jacaranda School of Orphans, Chichiri Secondary school, M’jamba school and Stella Maris girls secondary. This collaboration shall bring unique presentation based on theme 40 ways to make the world more attractive. The cast of student depart for Germany on 15^th June 2018.

We quotes this from Mohamad Al Jounde from Syria “Theater is still one of the best ways to express yourself and a mirror to show people what’s good and wrong in our world. The stage is a space where you can create your own world, where you can feel your dreams coming to life. The kids I used to work with were able to show us their past, and the future they wanted, by the play they wrote and acted. They were able to influence people’s emotions and give them the chance to live what was real for those kids, because they never acted, but they were showing their feelings and their reality in a touch of art”