BULAWAYO schools will today battle it out at the Bulawayo Amphitheatre as they seek slots to perform during the Intwasa Arts Festival Ko Bulawayo.
Luyanduhlobo Makwati
The two-day event dubbed the Literature Live Festival will see schools performing plays from various school setbooks currently under study for this year’s final examinations.
The festival is a theatre-in-education project.
Students will perform various plays taken from seasoned African and European texts.
Some of plays would be derived from setbooks written by acclaimed African writers such as Okot p’Bitek and Wole Soyinka, among others.
Thabani Moyo, a teacher at a local school assisting with the co-ordination of the event, said the live performance of literature would help students grapple with what is written in the novels and plays respectively.
“What we are doing here is that we want our students to perform these plays live so that they can have an understanding of what they are learning at school,” he said.
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Moyo said this will be a learning platform that will give students a chance to learn away from the classroom.
“In the process they will learn to think beyond the classroom as it allows them to remember most of the things they see.
“There is a belief that we remember most of the things we see than those we hear or read,” he said.
Literature in English has been rated as a difficult subject for most students in the country.
