Playwright Matome Rapetsoa gets message to the masses
Industrial theatre producer Rapetsoa enjoys phenomenal success crafting plays that carry a corporate message, writes Edward Tsumele
When theatre writer, actor, director and producer Matome Rapetsoa became a radio actor at the age of six, and stage actor at 12, he believed he was carving out a path to a successful career on the commercial stage. Instead, he found a niche as a producer in industrial theatre, and he has made a phenomenal success of it — for himself and several actors. Rapetsoa crafts plays that appeal to the corporate market. They are produced by his company, Mahuma Group, based in Centurion, Pretoria. The young playwright, who graduated from the Tshwane University of Technology in speech and drama, is already a big name in industrial theatre. His latest production, Time is Money, Save Now, which is touring the country, was commissioned by the Financial Services Board (FSB) to encourage South Africans to save. "I got an opportunity to work with the FSB in 2015, after they deemed it necessary that, because, generally, South Africans are bad savers, there was a need for an intervention," Rapetsoa say...
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