PLAN Zimbabwe is hogging the limelight at the ongoing Intwasa International Arts Festival KoBulawayo with its sponsored live literature project and a high schools drama competition targeting children.
Own Correspondent
Plan, which is now a permanent feature in the popular festival, yesterday had its first live literature project – The Lion and The Jewel – which attracted a full house.
Scores of students from many high schools had to be turned away owing to lack of space at Bulawayo Theatre, the venue of the pulsating show.
The Lion and the Jewel penned by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka is part of the Ordinary Level Literature setbooks.
Directed by Thabani Moyo and produced by Raisedon Baya, the play chronicles how Baroka, the lion, fights with the modern Lakunle over the right to marry Sidi, the so-called Jewel. It will have repeat runs during the five-day arts jamboree.
Plan Zimbabwe, whose moto is “Children are at the heart of everything we do” is also sponsoring a play the Colour of Hope and finals of the high schools drama and public speaking competitions.
The initiative is part of Plan Zimbabwe’s efforts to promote child protection and participation in the arts.
