Kebiditswe takes Motlhala play to Chile

Kebiditswe PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKOBE
Kebiditswe PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKOBE

The local scriptwriter Neo Kebiditswe is amongst the top 10 African female playwrights nominated to attend the 11th Women Playwrights International Conference (WPIC) in Santiago, Chile, scheduled to take place from October 7 to October 12 2018.

Her original dramatic play, Motlhala, was selected by 25 jurors from across the world, and was sequentially chosen for a dramatic reading at this prestigious conference, which is held every three years in different continents.

Kebiditswe is no stranger to this forum as she attended the 10th WPIC in Cape Town-South Africa in 2015, as a delegate. After being selected as an official playwright for the 2015 African Youth Festival by ASSITEJ South Africa, organisers invited her to partake at the conference to benchmark with other playwrights from across the world. Upon returning home, Kebiditswe began working on Motlhala, which she completed in 2017. Upon receiving confirmation that the text was selected for the upcoming conference, Kebiditswe showcased a staged performance of the play at the 2018 Maitisong Festival in Gaborone recently.

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