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Chanco Travelling Theatre goes deeper with prophecy

Chancellor College Travelling Theatre on Saturday staged their latest offering The Prophecy at Nanzikambe Arts Cafe.

The Prophecy

centres on a false prophet who uses his position in the church to rob the poor.

Chanco Traveling Theatre  bring the story of the prophet of life
Chanco Traveling Theatre bring the story of the prophet of life

The prophet is made more powerful by his royal disciples who fail to see things objectively and question his actions but always sing praise of him.

One of his church followers, Mr Income Tax, is excommunicated from church after he rises up to challenge the credibility of the prophet.

The prophet then falsely prophesies that he is a witch. After Mr Income Tax loses his job and his son falls ill, the wife takes him to the Prophet where he refuses to pray for him until he dies.

In the end Mr Income Tax exposes the prophet’s falsehood.

The play’s execution was good with brilliance miming skills that were consistent throughout the play.

Characterisation in The Prophecy is among some of the factors that make the play powerful with variations in personality of characters.

The actors showed great professionalism and maturity as they at times engaged with the audience and at times turned some comments from the audience which could otherwise have been disturbing to their advantage.

For example, when the audience got noisy during the church scene, the prophet improvises a line and tells the audience to stay quite.

“When you make noise you make this business look silly,” said the actor.

However, the play has some shortfalls which could have been looked into by the director.

Although the play enjoyed creative exits that kept suspense and curiosity of the audience at the end of the scenes, at times it became chaotic as background action upstaged main action.

For instance, the second scene where the builders lose their job becomes chaotic and in the process overshadows the action and dialogue still in progress.

Balancing up the strength and the shortfalls of the play one finds the weak points of the play being overshadowed in the great acting and delivery.

The play was a great piece but coming from Chancellor College, which is the capital of theatre in the country The Prophecy leaves room for improvement.

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