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Theatre: In the times of Ngungunhane
12:29 CAT | 24 July 2019
Theatre: In the times of Ngungunhane
Date and Time: Thursday, August 1 2019 at 18h30
Entrance: 200 MZN
Address: CCBM - Centro Cultural Brasil Moçambique, Av. 25 de Setembro, no. 1728, Maputo
About the play
This is a play based on the oral tradition of African storytellers, where a single element unfolds into various characters, to the complicity of the audience, portray some magical episodes, parallel to the life of the famous Mozambican tribal king Gungunhana . The text of the play comes from “Ualalapi” (considered one of the best 100 African books of the twentieth century) by award-winning Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa.
In Gungunhana's time is a set of stories within a story, a work that starts from a historical time and a particular culture and then goes on a universalist and borderless journey.
"Once upon a time there was a Tsonga warrior named Umbangananamani, who had once been married to a beautiful Macua woman named Malice. They had no children. But they tried very hard." This is the motto that starts the great karingana or traditional tale about the life of a simple warrior, but it will quickly become a sequence of other little karinganas that relate curious aspects related to the kingdom of Gungunhana.
Duration: 60 minutes
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