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Two Gents at Theatre Royal Bath this Christmas!
It has been a mammoth tour of Vakomana VaViri Ve Zimbabwe or Two Gentlemen of Verona, internationally we have been received enthusiastically by diverse audiences in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Germany. In the UK we have not only performed in London but also around the country in over 44 venues ranging from the impressive city theatres (how about the Contact in Manchester? Or the mighty Aberystwyth Arts Centre?) to the rural (our lucky escape before the floods hit Orton, Keswick and Cockermouth in deepest Cumbria), South to North, East to West we have done them all and have a mile-ridden battered car to show for it. Almost five thousand people have seen this ever evolving and “seriously entertaining show” (that’s not us but the Observer on Sunday no less!). Next year, we go truly international as we base ourselves in the sunshine city that is Harare and take on Spain and Poland. Exciting, non? For now, we are feeling festive, so come and join us as we take our final bow of 2009 in the beautiful setting of the Ustinov at the Theatre Royal, Bath.
We are going on tour!
With generous support from the Oval House Theatre, we have just started rehearsals on our London hit Two Gentlemen of Verona or Vakomana Vaviri ve Zimbabwe. We kick off our tour on September 29 at The Watermill, Newbury where it continues through to 3rd October.
The tour dates are as follows:
Magetsi
After inflation and dollarization, mass exoduses and a newly constituted Government of National Unity, two men in overalls try to make sense of it all using nothing but a bucket and an old piece of carpet.
A newly returned woman’s search for a partner in Harare, a grandmothers campaign for electricity and lessons on how best to negotiate a bucket bath. This revolving disc of characters and situations unearths the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans, whose stories will never make it to the press.
.This is it. This is Harare eclectic and electric. This is Magetsi. Written and performed by Two Gents Productions.
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Two Gents in residency at Harare’s Reps Theatre
Two Gents Productions is going to Zimbabwe! Not only to kick off our international tour of Vakomana Vaviri Ve Zimbabwe OR Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA - April 28 - May 3), but also to develop a new piece of work in collaboration with other Zimbabwean artists at the Harare Reps Theatre for three to four weeks in May. A new piece which we will then bring back to London and develop for full production. Dzoka! is your opportunity to see some of the material we are planning to develop in Zimbabwe. Read more »
DZOKA! A celebration and fundraiser
Two Gents Productions in association with Oval House Theatre presents DZOKA!, a celebration and fundraiser.
Oval House Theatre is proud to present a one-off special event hosted by Two Gents Productions. Following the success of the company’s inaugural show last Autumn, Oval House has donated our theatre to help them launch a six-week Zimbabwean residency.
Vakomana Vaviri Ve Zimbabwe or Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Gents Productions presents Vakomana Vaviri Ve Zimbabwe or Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare
Directed by Arne Pohlmeier
Performed by Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu
From Verona to Milan, via Harare and Bulawayo, Vakomana Vaviri Ve Zimbabwe takes one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies and transforms it into a two-man Zimbabwean riot of love, friendship and betrayal.