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BY DEBORAH BRUCE

WELCOME I will be forever grateful to my colleague Giles Croft (former Artistic Director at Nottingham Playhouse) for introducing me to Mufaro Makubika. Nottingham had been collaborating with him for some time – he had written some short plays and monologues – and then he wrote Shebeen, a big, knotty and complex play that Giles presented on their main stage. It went on to a season at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and then won the Alfred Fagon Award for best new play of 2017. So it was inevitable that when I arrived at Hampstead in 2019, Mufaro would be one of the first playwrights I would approach about a commission. Malindadzimu is the thrilling result of that approach, developed during some very enjoyable Zoom sessions with Mufaro during lockdown when an eventual production admittedly felt something of a distant prospect.

And now the production has finally arrived! I am delighted that we were able to entrust it to Monique Touko as her professional debut as a director. She is clearly one of the most exciting emerging talents around, and we feel lucky to have secured her – she is going straight from Malindadzimu to the Bush Theatre to direct the new Ella Road play (Ella’s first play - The Phlebotomist – premiered here at Hampstead Downstairs). Monique has attracted an A-List Creative Team, and her cast includes a cadre of old friends alongside Kudzai Mangombe who, playing the teenager at the heart of the story, will also be making her professional debut.

The play takes us somewhere really unusual – into a landscape and a world that we see all too rarely on the London stage. It’s an exciting journey – I do hope you enjoy it!

ROXANA SILBERT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

THE

DAVINA MOSS

INTERVIEW

DM | You came to the UK from Zimbabwe at the age of 16, and in the play your character Hope makes the reverse journey at a very similar age. Talk to me a little about this symmetry of the personal and the fictional…

MM | There is obvious symmetry there in the ages. I think that it was a nice, tangible jumping off point into the world of the story, to ask ‘what if?’. The story always was intended to have a young person at the heart of it. It is a work of fiction but Iike all writers I’m inspired by the world around me.

DM | What inspired you to write Malindadzimu?

MM | My reasons for writing Malindadzimu are two-fold. The rise of the Rhodes Must Fall movement which first sprang up as a student movement in South Africa and also other global events which led to an overdue conversation on colonial legacy. I wanted to write a play about the people who were and still are directly or indirectly affected by the legacy of Cecil John Rhodes.

The other inspiration for the play was a young relative who wanted to pursue a career in the arts and she couldn’t find work that spoke to her, I wrote something for her.

DM | The play is character focused, but somehow one still feels the enormity of Zimbabwe on every page. How did you approach integrating the personal and the political in your writing?

MM | At the heart of the play is a black British teenage girl of African descent suddenly dropped into an alien world for her. A clash was inevitable. I guess what’s important is that Hope is so specific and in many ways that that creates a real stark contrast between her and her new surroundings. Maybe this why Zimbabwe feels more present in the story. It is part of the story. Like many other nations that were under colonial rule, there are always the physical remnants of colonialism i.e. buildings and whole cities. For Zimbabwe, Rhodes’ legacy is a pernicious one in my opinion. This is after all a country that was named after the man in its history and is also his final resting place.

Maybe the best way to sum up the complexity of the Rhodes’ legacy in Zimbabwe is to acknowledge that Zimbabwe as a country is only fortyone years old. My parents were born under colonialism, as were their parents and their parents before them.

The mother and daughter being at the heart of the play felt like a

HAMPSTEAD THEATRE’S LITERARY MANAGER TALKS TO THE WRITER

MUFARO MAKUBIKA natural evolution of the idea or gesture of the play without being polemic about it all.

DM | The setting for much of the play is a farm outside Bulawayo…

Do you have connections to the area?

MM | I spent a bit of time in Bulawayo as a young person though I’m not from there. I got to know and love the city and its people.

DM | The character of Gogo is a wonderful imaginative creation!

Where did you conjure her from?

MM | She is not based on any one person but is rather an amalgamation of the many older amazing Zimbabwean women I’ve known or encountered. I really enjoyed spending time with her.

DM | And who are the contemporary playwrights that you most admire?

MM | All of them. I know that sounds like a flimsy answer but it’s not. The truth is I admire the courage and work that goes into writing one.

MUFARO MAKUBIKA

THE BURIAL PLACE OF DEIFIED ANCESTORS According to the UNESCO, the extraordinary Matobo Hills landscape – the hills were designated a world heritage site in 2003 contains both cultural and natural attributes of exceptional aesthetic, scientific and educational significance. The cultural heritage in the area covers a period of more than five hundred thousand years, with continual human settlement over at least one hundred thousand years from Early Iron Age to the present (a human skeleton was found here dating 42000 BC).

There are numerous rock art sites, with

continues to do so. People of the Hills area value their special relationship with a unique environment, their ownership of shrines, and their very particular form of agriculture. It is because of these values that close links between the indigenous communities and the area have been maintained; people from across the region converge on places within the Hills area to pray for rainfall or ask for good health.

The founder of the Southern African Ndebele (Matabele) kingdom, Mzilikazi - father of

PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE REGION CONVERGE ON PLACES WITHIN THE HILLS AREA TO PRAY FOR RAINFALL OR ASK FOR GOOD HEALTH extensive cave paintings, rock shelters with religious sites, burial sites and historic buildings. The depth and variety of its cultural landscape is unmatched anywhere else in the country and possibly in the continent.

The area contains important shrines such as Njelele, Dula, Zhilo, Manyangwa and Wirirani/ Wililani; all of them are centres of the Mwari/ Mwali religion, an indigenous religion that has been practiced for many centuries. The indigenous traditional religious beliefs and practices were and still are instrumental to the preservation of the cultural heritage. For instance, the voice of Mwari, the supreme being, is believed to be heard from the rocks.

It is thought that the ancestral spirits reside in the forests, mountains, caves, hollowed trees and pools. The followers of Mwari and believers in the ancestral spirits therefore attach great respect to the environment because they argue that were it to be despoiled their god and the spirits would be deprived of a home to live in.

The Matobo Hills area played a very important role in lives of past communities and

King Lobengula - is buried there. And, more surprisingly, so is the imperialist Cecil John Rhodes… Rhodes was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa.

Born in Britain in 1853, he started in the diamond trade at 18, eventually founding De Beers. As Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896 he introduced laws that removed the Black community from their lands (to encourage industrialisation) and then effectively disenfranchised them; these laws laid down foundations for the later apartheid movement. In his will, Rhodes named Matobo Hills as his burial site of choice. The hill where Rhodes’ remains still lie is known locally as ‘Malindadzimu’, a word meaning the burial place of the deified ancestors.

The presence of Rhodes’ gravesite at Malindadzimu has been the subject of controversy since the 1980s. It is argued by many that the remains of a man associated with imperialism and the exploitation the indigenous population for personal commercial gain simply do not belong in modern

Zimbabwe. His grave is, however, a tourist attraction within the Matopos National Park, and is protected by law under the jurisdiction of the National Museums and Monuments

by the British government and used to charter the BSAC. Lobengula refused the BSAC access to the areas under his control, and in 1890 the BSAC invaded nearby Mashonaland.

THE PRESENCE OF RHODES’ GRAVESITE AT MALINDADZIMU HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF CONTROVERSY SINCE THE 1980s of Zimbabwe. The site actually generates sufficient revenue to motivate many locals to oppose the removal of the grave. And surprisingly, even former President Robert Mugabe opposed exhuming Rhodes because – from the tourist revenue the site generated - he was at least paying tax while lying in the grave.

The new government seems likely to continue this entrepreneurial approach and oppose exhumation.

Rhodes’ opponent, the last king of the Southern African Ndebele nation is not, however, buried in the Matobo Hills. King Lobengula (1836–1894) was unable to prevent his kingdom from being destroyed when forces of Rhodes’ British South Africa Company (BSAC) massacred his highly disciplined warriors at the Battle of the Shangani in 1893 (the battle is notable for being the first time the terrifying potential of the Maxim gun was made clear). Lobengula had maintained power over a huge area of highveld until gold discoveries of 1886 drew attention to the gold in the Ndebele kingdom.

Soon after, a treaty of friendship signed with the British was distorted by the British government in order to declare his kingdom a British protectorate. In 1888 Lobengula signed what he thought was a limited mineral concession with a group of Cecil Rhodes’s business associates, but it too was manipulated to appear as a gold concession for his entire kingdom. In 1889 it was ratified

After British settlers failed to find much gold in Mashonaland, the BSAC induced them to join their invading force against Lobengula’s Ndebele kingdom in 1893 with promises of gold claims, land and cattle.

Faced with catastrophic defeat in battle and a simultaneous invasion by British imperial forces from the south, Lobengula burned his capital, Bulawayo, and disappeared in the direction of the Zambezi River. It is assumed that he died in late 1893 or early 1894.

THE GRAVE OF CECIL JOHN RHODES - THE MATOBO HILLS, ZIMBABWE

SHYKO AMOS

SIFISO MAZIBUKO

MUFARO MAKUBIKA, MONIQUE TOUKO & KUDZAI MANGOMBE

NATASHA WILLIAMS

MONIQUE TOUKO

TENDAI HUMPHREY SITIMA

SIFISO MAZIBUKO & KUDZAI MANGOMBE

CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM MUFARO MAKUBIKA WRITER This is Mufaro’s second play following his critically acclaimed Shebeen (Nottingham Playhouse/Theatre Royal Stratford East Winner of the Alfred Fagon Award for best new play 2017).

MONIQUE TOUKO DIRECTOR

Malindadzimu is Monique’s professional directing debut.

Her assisting work includes Blood Wedding (Young Vic); Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s); Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe); Cock (Chichester Festival Theatre); On the Exhale (Traverse); Yellowman (Young Vic); Kanye the First (HighTide, UK tour); ALT Showcase (Southwark Playhouse); B!RTH Festival (Manchester Royal Exchange); Wishlist (Manchester Royal Exchange Manchester/ Royal Court) and Grandfathers (National Theatre Connections, Oval House).

Her directing training includes the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme at the Manchester Royal Exchange.

At the Young Vic, her training has involved the Introduction to Directing course led by Sacha Weres, the Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Directors Programme and the Jerwood Assistant Director Scheme.

She is also part of The Ubunifu Space - a definitive guide to music and culture from the youth of Africa and the diaspora - the Ubunifu way. Monique is Partnership Manager and Assistant Producer for Ubunifu Radio as well as a regular member of the UK reaction team on their youtube channel.

SHYKO AMOS FAITH Theatre work includes Familiar (Yale Rep/ Playwrights Horizons NY); Generations (Soho Rep, NY - New York Times Critics Pick); An Octoroon (Soho Rep, NY - OBIE Award for Best New American Play); In Time (Almeida); Bob Marley, The Musical (Birmingham Rep); Once on this Island (UK tour) and Mamma Mia! (World tour).

Television work includes Death in Paradise (series regular); A Very English Scandal and Celebrity Masterchef 2020.

KUDZAI MANGOMBE HOPE Kudzai graduated from Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts in 2021.

Malindadzimu is her professional debut.

SIFISO MAZIBUKO LOBENGULA/ FOREMAN Sifiso was born in South Africa and studied at The Tshwane University of Technology and completed his B-Tech in Musical Theatre in 2009. He is also a graduate of The Ohio State University with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting.

Theatre work includes A Land Without People and Hector (both Courtyard Theatre); Wrought Atlas Theatre Ensemble (New York International Fringe Festival 2015); The Tempest (Flute Theatre Company UK tour); The Theatre is a Blank Page (SITI Theatre company at UCLA arts, USA); The First Actress (Theatro Technis, London/Barn Theatre, Kent) and The Tempest (The Ohio State University).

Musical theatre work includes Hamilton, The Musical (Victoria Palace); Motown, The Musical (Shaftesbury); Dreamgirls, The Musical (Teatro Theatre, Johannesburg) and Shaka Zulu, The Musical (State Theatre, Pretoria).

Dance work includes African Footprint (Asia tour).

Film work includes Pretville.

TENDAI HUMPHREY SITIMA SPIRIT MEDIUM/ DOCTOR/ LABOURER Tendai trained at RADA. He played George Wilson in the Immersive Great Gatsby, for which he also composed and produced the original score.

Other theatre work includes Alice in Wonderland (HOME, Manchester); The Tales of Beatrix Potter (Gobbledigook theatre company at the Old Library, Denmark Hill); Neverland (Guild of Misrule theatre company at the Vaults); Titus Andronicus (Time Zone Theatre) and Out of the Frame and Frame Narrative (both Project Oeuvre Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival).

He is a professional singer, who plays Bass Guitar, Drums, Piano and Saxophone.

NATASHA WILLIAMS

MATT HASKINS LIGHTING DESIGNER

GOGO Theatre work includes Off the Endz and Ambulance (both Royal Court); Black Crows (Arcola) and The Fatherland (Bush).

Television work includes It’s a Sin; EastEnders; Doctor Who and Holby City.

ZOË HURWITZ DESIGNER Most recent UK theatre work includes The Language of Kindness (Shoreditch Town Hall/Warwick Arts Centre/Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall); Fen (LAMDA); We Anchor in Hope (Bunker); The Five Plays Project (Directors Programme, Young Vic) and Living Newspaper collective (Royal Court).

Most recent television and film production design work includes Assisted Living (web series, NYC) Pear (music video, NYC) and La Tercera Llamada (short film, Mexico).

She has designed for US venues such as Here Arts Center, Ars Nova (AntFest), The Wild Project and Brown/Trinity Rep. Recent associate work in the US includes Caroline or Change (Studio 54) and Social!

(Park Avenue Armory).

Zoë was a finalist in the 2020 JMK Award, a winner of the 2019 Linbury Prize for Nuffield Southampton and a finalist in the 2015 Off West End Awards for Lovesong of the Electric Bear (Hope Theatre/The Arts).

She also was a Jerwood Assistant Designer at the Gate.

Theatre work includes Raya; The Cost of Living; I & You; Wilderness; The Strange Death of John Doe; No One Will Tell Me How to Start a Revolution and Kiss Me (all Hampstead Theatre); Zorro (Hope Mill Theatre); The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep); Nina (Young Vic/Unity Theatre); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo); Truth and Reconciliation (Royal Court); Hobson’s Choice (Royal Exchange) and The Last Five Years (New Wolsey).

Opera work includes Coraline (Barbican); The Snowmaiden; Hansel & Gretel; La Cenerentola; La Traviata; Don Giovanni; The Turn of the Screw and Cautionary Tales (all Opera North); The Commission; Café Kafka; Glare and The Virtues of Things (all Royal Opera House); A Quiet Place (Opera Zuid); Wuthering Heights (Opéra national de Lorraine); Sukanya (Festival Hall); La Cenerentola (Irish National Opera); Anna Bolena; Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux (all Welsh National Opera); Roméo et Juliette and Der Fliegende Holländer (both Estonian National Opera).

MAX PAPPENHEIM SOUND DESIGNER Theatre work includes Cruise and The Night of the Iguana (both West End); Assembly and The Way of the World (both Donmar); The Children (Royal Court/ Broadway); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); Crooked Dances (RSC); Dry Powder and Labyrinth (both Hampstead Theatre); Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubühne, Berlin/Royal Court); One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); Hogarth’s Progress (Rose, Kingston); The Ridiculous

Darkness (Gate); Amsterdam and Blue/ Heart (both Orange Tree); The Tempest and Beckett Triple Bill (both Jermyn Street); The Gaul (Hull Truck); Jane Wenham (Out of Joint); Waiting for Godot (Sheffield Crucible); My Eyes Went Dark (Traverse/9E59, New York); The Cardinal and Kiki’s Delivery Service (both Southwark Playhouse); Looking Good Dead and The Habit of Art (both UK tours).

Opera work includes Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Scraww (Trebah Gardens); Vixen (Vaults/International Tour) and Carmen: Remastered (ROH/Barbican).

Film work includes The Haunting of Alice Bowles and Barnes’ People (Original Online).

Dance work includes While You are Here (DanceEast/The Place).

Max is Associate Artist of The Faction.

MAISIE CARTER FIGHT DIRECTOR Maisie started her training with the Academy of Performance Combat (APC) in her time at Guildford School of Acting. She is now a qualified instructor with the APC, fight performer and fight choreographer.

Work as a Fight Choreographer includes The Falcon’s Flight (Outdoors venues, LifeWorks Theatre); Queen Margaret (UK tour, Downpour Theatre); Henry IV (The Show Must Go Online); Julius Caesar (Cotswold Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (UK tour outdoors theatre, Shakespeare Live); Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre Royal, Bath) and Zorro (Performance Preparation Academy).

Film and television work as Fight Performer includes Parousia; Puzzle Piece; TailSpin; Take 3; Hanna (Seasons 2 & 3) and Avenue 5.

JOEL TRILL DIALECT COACH Theatre work includes Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (Orange Tree); Bagdad Cafe (Old Vic); Love Letters (Queens); J’Ouvert (Pinter/Theatre503); Mirror Mirror (National Theatre); Rockets and Blue Lights (Manchester Royal Exchange); Trojan Horse (Battersea Arts Centre); A Taste of Honey (Trafalgar Studios); Master Harold & The Boys (National Theatre); Two Trains Runnin’ (Royal & Derngate); As You Like It (Queen’s Hornchurch); Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland); Strange Fruit (Bush); One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); The Glass Menagerie (Arcola); The Half God of Rainfall (Kiln); Good Dog (Watford Palace); One Love (Birmingham Rep); Princess and the Hustler (Bristol Old Vic); DNA (Queen’s Hornchurch); The Dark (Tobacco Factory, Bristol); The Wider Earth (Natural History Museum); Macbeth (Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin); Yellowman (Young Vic) and Assata Taught Me (Gate).

Film work includes Empire; Queen and Slim and The Ancestors.

Television work includes The Confessions of Frannie Langton; Gangs of London; The Crown; Citadel; My name is Leon; Mama Ks Team 4 and There’s Something About Movies.

SIFISO MAZIBUKO & TENDAI HUMPHREY SITIMA

NATASHA WILLIAMS, KUDZAI MANGOMBE & SHYKO AMOS

SIFISO MAZIBUKO, KUDZAI MANGOMBE & TENDAI HUMPHREY SITIMA

TENDAI HUMPHREY SITIMA & SHYKO AMOS

NATASHA WILLIAMS

TENDAI HUMPHREY SITIMA & SHYKO AMOS

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