Let's Talk Theatre Again #9: A Theatre in the Classroom Journey with Zubayr Charles
From The Battered Housewives' Club Zubayr Charles is a writer and English teacher at the Good Hope Seminary Girls’ High School in Cape Town. Naturally, he became good friends with the author of Cultsha Kennis after we met him at the David Kramer Masterclasses in 2019 and discovered his affinity for Bo-Kaap. In the current South African climate where gender-based violence is addressed as a second pandemic after the Covid-19 pandemic, as per the recent address by SA President Cyril Ramaphosa, Zubayr’s playwriting is support of the victims of abuse is widely significant. Read more below! Cultsha Kennis: Congratulations on completing your first semester with your MA in Creative Writing at UCT. Tell us more about your program, and the novel you’re writing. ZC: Shukran! Well the programme is structured between two years. For the first year, writers complete a compulsory workshop with South African author Imraan Coovadia, and thereafter writers have to choose three other