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Out of the limelight
Out of the mainstream
Out of the reach of deep-bellied fiends
That have all but made her bleed with grief
And robbed her of peace
She fled into the streets
Where spirits of Greece and Afuraka meet
And bow down as they greet
And embrace with searing passionate heat
She fled to reminisce about the simple days old
Before death by economy and polity
Before defeat by oppression and slavery
And on what should have been
The night of her final fading cry
We hear an enchanting melody rise
In a space where people feel alive
Allowed to speak aloud
And breathe a life
And be at large
A space where she exists
Without the fear of sabotage
It is here that spirits frolic
And teach the kids of relics past
It is here that warring heads
Put down their fists and raise a glass
It is here that young and old alike
Indulge in glorious play
It is here that every faith and creed
Congregates to pray
How could theatre breathe
If she could not hold space her way?
Her former captors lose their minds
And mourn the wretched shame…
“Theatre is dead.
Oh Theatre is dead!
She’s fallen far from grace,
With nothing left to take her place.
We will surely make her pay.
We’ll make her rue the day she fled
And found new lands to stay.
We’ll hunt her down,
Mark our words:
For-ever and a day”
The promise of sheep in wolf skin
An army of cowardly citizens
Holding on to dead ideals
With crumbling hands
That have started to peel
Their eyes betray them too
They cannot see their incumbent fate
That theatre is not dead
She has finally moved to take her place!
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Katlego Chale is a 27 year old South African writer, actor, lecturer and social entrepreneur, who holds MTech (Cum Laude), BTech (Cum Laude) and National Diploma qualifications in Drama. He works as a lecturer at the University of Pretoria, teaching Playwriting and at the Tshwane University of Technology, teaching several subjects including Scriptwriting, Speech Sounds (Accent Acquisition), Physical Theatre and Unarmed Stage Combat. Katlego is also a graduate of the NYDA Entrepreneurship Development Programme and the SADC Theatre Camp hosted in Zimbabwe by Savanna Trust. As a writer Katlego has several titles including “Ubulution”, which was directed by Prof. Janine Lewis (2016), “The Torture” which was conceptualized and performed by Kenneth Mlambo (2015-2016), “Roots in the Sky” with Calvin Ratladi for the National Arts Festival (2014), “Born Free Odyssey” with Gavin Matthys and the cast (2014) and “Apple Soup” in collaboration with the director Kenneth Mlambo which was performed at the National Arts Student Festival and then the following year at the National Arts Fringe Festival (2013 – 2014). Katlego is also the founding member of The Writers Lab (2018), an NPO which focuses on developing the skills of aspirant writers, theatre makers and creatives in general. He also runs a WordPress page called KatlegoChaleWrites with content varying from orignal micropoems to elaborate reviews of theatre productions by young, black South African theatre makers. The journey is still young for Katlego, as his ambition unlocks itself to the boundless possibilities for social entrepreneurship within the arts sector.
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