My experience with Familiar rehearsals started with table readings the day after I arrived in Washington D.C. If you have never visited Zimbabwe before, never spoken the language of the characters you are portraying and never been integrated into Zimbabwean culture, you best immerse yourself in research because knowledge is power!
Read MoreHwindi is a comedy TV series that satirizes the immense difficulties Zimbabweans face in their battle to stay alive. On the 20th of April, Harare audiences watched a staged reading of the pilot episode which is the first of a dozen planned episodes. I wanted to do a staged reading with Almasi for a couple of reasons: it offered us an opportunity to experiment with casting and staging, and it also lets us gauge audience response to the script.
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