Duduza – Lwazi Dumaphi is a multi-talented theatre performer from Tsakani, with nine years of community theater experience captivating audiences with his remarkable acting skills and emotion-triggering poetry.
The Market Theatre Foundation annually hosts the Zwakala Theatre Festival, which started in 1992, co-founded by Dr John Kani and Barney Simon.
The festival aims to empower community theater-makers by developing their script writing skills, acting abilities and directing skills to highlight social issues and stories from diverse communities.
“The festival offers the top four chosen theater plays a three month incubation programme where the artists get to indulge with industry experts on the last day of the festival, and participate in the Zwakala Festival Awards,” said Dumaphi.
Dumaphi went to audition for one the top four theatre productions, Mimo And Many More Production, from Soweto, for a role in a play titled Pieces of a Woman.
“I was then chosen for the role, which is when I joined the incubation programme. I went on to play five different characters in the play. I moved audiences every time I was on stage. I was then nominated for the 31st Zwakala Festival under the best actor category, at the award ceremony held at The Market Theatre.
“I won the 31st Zwakala Festival best actor award in October last year, making me the first theatre actor in Ekurhuleni to win the award,” he said.
On May 31 Dumaphi will host his first one-man theatre show at the Tsakane Old Age Home, where he hopes to inspire other local artists.
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