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Performing arts scene energised
A scene in the play ‘What Happens in the Night’. From left: Nick Ndenda, Marriane Nungo, Shiveshe Shivisi, and Bilal Mwaura. PHOTO | MARGARETTA WA GACHERU
It’s finally happening! Kenyan thespians, script and screen writers are at last taking seriously the need to create scripts and tell their own stories. They’re doing it for stage as well as film and TV.
Film seems to be where the most robust forces are at work. We’ve not only seen this with the Academy award nominee film Watu Wote and the Berlinale award winner, Supa Modo but also with Tosh Gitonga’s Disconnect, Philippa Ndisi-Hermann’s New Moon and Hawa Esseun’s Silas.
