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RAISEDON BAYA (1973 - ) |
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Nationality: Zimbabwean Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Raisedon Baya is a writer, arts critic, columnist, and television producer with several awards to his credit. His plays has been performed by Amakhosi Theatre, Rooftop Productions, Bambelela Arts, Siyaya Arts. Most of his plays have travelled around the world with different arts companies. His short stories and articles have appeared in local and international magazines. Baya was part of a British Council sponsored writing project called crossing borders and in 2007 -2008 he part of the Power in the Voice poetry project. Baya has won the National Arts Merit Awards (N.A.M.A) eight times. He has won for writing, directing and producing. Baya is a sub sector member for the Culture Fund Trust of Zimbabwe, and also the theatre chairperson for Intwasa Arts Festival ko Bulawayo. Currently he is coordinating the School Playwrights and actors Academy (SPAA) - an initiative that seeks to train young people theatre and writing skills. At the moment he is working on a novel and a play on migration and xenophobia.
Plays by Raisedon Baya
Critical Moments | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre in the park | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Rooftop Promotions | |||||
| 1st Published: | With publishers, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87996 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | In a country whose economy is now run from the street corners and everyone is a hustler Critical Moments takes a swipe at corruption. With the current cash crisis bank tellers and bank manager are making a killing selling cash through the backdoor and giving themselves insider loans and all. The play's central characters are Vicky, a bank manager who has been secretly wheeling and dealing and her husband Charles, who has just been appointed to the anti-corruption commission! | |||||
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Crocodile of Zambezi, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Small City Hall | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Homegrown Arts Production | |||||
| 1st Published: | With publishers, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87998 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Protest Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Co-written with Chris Mlalazi. During the second day of its performance police stopped the play and the production manager was kidnapped by secret police and tortured. | |||||
Synopsis: | Written as a sequel to Super Patriot and Morons. It is the ageing leader's birthday and to celebrate the day The Crocodile announces an amnesty for all political prisoners. This sees his alter ego, a man he has been keeping locked up for years released. When the alter ego is released he goes straight to the celebrations where he comes face to face with the Crocodile. This is a story about succession, and the leadership crisis that has gripped Africa. | |||||
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Madmen and Fools | ||
| 1st Produced: | Amakhosi Cultural Centre | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Amakhosi Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | With publishers, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87995 | |||
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Genre: | mixture of comedy and tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Was adjudged best play at Zimbabwe's NAMA awards. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in a backyard babourshop the play looks at the disintegration of the family unit as a result of the economic meltdown in Zimbabwe. While looking at family issues the play also follows the life of one of the sons who is an out of work journalist now stringing for foreign publications. The slant of his stories puts him at loggerheads with his father who sees his stories as unpatriotic and a betrayal to the values of the liberation struggle and nationalism. | |||||
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Super patriots and morons | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre in the park | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Rooftop Promotions | |||||
| 1st Published: | With publishers, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87994 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | This play was co-written with Leonard Matsa and is banned in Zimbabwe | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in a ficticious country the play looks at a leader who has lost touch with his own people and decides to send his right hand man to find out what the people are saying about his rule and himself. The answer that comes back shocks him and he decides to take action to consolidate his position. However, his time is running out. | |||||
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Two Leaders I Know, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harare International Festival of the Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84253 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy with strong hints of tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Written by two of Zimbabwe's finest writers, Stephen Chifunyise and Raisedon Baya this work celebrates the life of Daves Guzha at the age forty in a country that has been ruled for forty one years by only two leaders, Ian Douglas Smith and Robert Gabriel Mugabe | |||||
Synopsis: | Like many Zimbabwean artists prominent theatre practitioner Daves Guzha's life and work is informed by the wars, riots, sanctions, food shortages, price controls etc experienced under the rule of the two leaders who have been in power during his lifetime. He tells his story in this one-man stage production that is both sharply satirical and a moving personal evaluation of political consequences. | |||||
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Water Story, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | City Hall | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Homegrown Arts Production | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87997 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Water is a vital source of life only second to oxygen in importance. The City of Bulawayo has run dry and since the spirit of the city is believed to reside in water the people of Bulawayo have every reason to worry when they wake up to the sound of dry taps and barren clouds. The play follows four housemates as they desperately attempt to survive the water crisis. | |||||
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What They Said What They Got | ||
| 1st Produced: | Zambia | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Rooftop Promotions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66635 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | What They Said What They Got is a multi-issue driven production that interrogates the relations between society, culture and the media. Fundamental human rights issues are questioned when characters, set in modern day Zimbabwe, ironically find themselves stuck in constitutional situations reminiscent of the colonial times. The play criticizes repression in Rhodesia and questions why the same was obtaining in a supposedly free democracy. Cultural dimensions extend into the plot with a conflict between a husband, who is a journalist tormented by State restrictions, and a wife who moonlights as a scribe. The play was inspired by the day-to-day issues raised by the news media. It was written by Raisedon Baya and directed by Walter Mparutsa. Daves Guzha produced the play. | |||||
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