Critical Stages in Malawian Contemporary Theatre

By: Fumbani Innot Phiri HowlRound Theatre Commons
Listen for free

  • Summary

  • In Critical Stages in Malawian Contemporary Theatre, Fumbani Innot Phiri Jr. interviews established theatre artists from all backgrounds to explore the precarious journey of theatre in a modern world, define its problems, and find better solutions to sustain performing arts in a generation of motion pictures. Fumbani leads discussions with established performers, directors, and writers who are exploring ways to greet these challenges while their works inspire their communities.
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
    Show More Show Less
Art Entertainment & Performing Arts
Show More Show Less
Episodes
  • Championing Theatre for Development in Malawian

    Championing Theatre for Development in Malawian
    Jan 17 2023
    Theatre for development, which uses theatre to foster civic dialogue in communities, is quite popular in Malawi. Fumbani Innot Phiri, Jr. sits down with theatre for development practitioner Vitu Gwambaike Zgambo find out what commercial theatremakers in Malawi’s cities and towns can learn from the community-based practitioners creating theatre in villages around the country.
    Show More Show Less
    35 mins
  • Producing Malawi’s First Multidisciplinary Arts Festival

    Producing Malawi’s First Multidisciplinary Arts Festival
    Jan 9 2023
    When filmmaker Thomas Chibambo founded the Blantyre Arts Festival in 2009, it was Malawi’s first multidisciplinary arts festival. He joins host Fumbani Innot Phiri, Jr. to discuss the Blantyre Arts Festival’s current plans to better support theatrical performance and his own work to establish an Arts Council in Malawi.
    Show More Show Less
    35 mins
  • How YDC Theatre Leaders Are Navigating Malawi’s Changing Theatre Environment

    How YDC Theatre Leaders Are Navigating Malawi’s Changing Theatre Environment
    Jan 4 2023
    YDC Theatre has been producing theatre consistently in Malawi, even throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They join Fumbani Innot Phiri, Jr. to trace the connections between the company’s consistent work centering Malawian perspectives, their efforts to build an audience, and the political and funding climate that they must navigate.
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 1 min

What listeners say about Critical Stages in Malawian Contemporary Theatre

Average Customer Ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com.au reviews

Amazon Reviews
No Reviews are Available
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.