‘Black Thought Now’ showing this Sunday at Serena Hotel

Goethe-Institut will this Sunday present a theatre and dance production at the Kigali Serena Hotel. Titled- Black Thought Now, (La Nouvelle Pensee Noire – Cheferie/Chiefdom), the production features eight actors from Rwanda, Germany, The Netherlands and Ivory Coast.Dubbed, “An artistic injection from Berlin, Abidjan and Rwanda”, the play is an attempt at depicting the state of people’s minds across the globe today. Rwandan actors, Hervé Kimenyi and Michael Sengazi (both members of the Comedy Knights), as well as the Rwandan actress Sonja will team up with the performer Gotta Depri from Ivory Coast, Germans Hauke Heumann (actor) and Ted Gaier (musician), and Dutch legislation expert Thijs Bouknegt.Quick wit and improvisation will be at play, as the actors take on delicate and sensitive topics like; the style of governance in their respective countries, Pan-Africanism, the “white” future of Africans, coded political vocabulary, and constitution & reality contradictions, all this becoming physical on stage.Last November, the production was used to inaugurate the prestigious SPIELART festival in Munich, Germany, subsequently being described as a “a felicitous opener in the energy and chaos mode African style”. That production too featured our very own Herve Kimenyi and Micheal Sengazi, who this time round bring their theatrics back to the home audience.In this production, performers constitute a chiefdom dominated by self-confident bosses, chiefs, and men of action, all at the top political level.The interludes are characterised by swapping of roles, with dancers singing, while the singers now become writers, in such a way that no single profession steals the show.The free concert kicks off at 7:30 pm, at the Kigali Serena main auditorium.

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‘Black Thought Now’ showing this Sunday at Serena Hotel