Curtain call for young playwright Monageng Vice Motshabi
Winning the Standard Bank Young Artist Award has boosted Motshabi’s confidence
Theatre director and writer Monageng Vice Motshabi has a smile on his face — for good reason. After crafting several plays over the years, some as collaborative endeavours with other like-minded thespians, he is now reaping the rewards. He is the recipient of the 2017 Standard Bank Young Artist Award, which gives him the opportunity to develop new work to present at the National Arts Festival to be held in Grahamstown from June 29. The annual festival is attended by thousands of people, including leading theatre producers looking for new talent. Winning this award also gave Motshabi a renewed sense of urgency to complete what he had been working on for two years – a book of plays. Entitled The Palms of the Time, it is scheduled for launch this week. The book features Rebellations, a play Motshabi cowrote with Kgafela Oa Magogodi, and two other works by fellow playwrights — Xoli Norman’s Hallelujah and Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom and Aubrey Sekhabi’s Inter-racial. The three works, which...
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