Actress breaks down on stage

WHAT was just a stage recollection of the Gukurahundi massacres in the early 1980s in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces through the play — 1983 The Dark Years — at Theatre in the Park became too hard to bear for actress, Proficiency Kadder, who broke down on stage midway through the theatre piece.

Kadder plays the role of a young girl, whose mother was raped by a soldier during the Gukurahundi massacres.

While she had played the role with the aplomb of a professional from the onset of the play, towards the end, as the character she plays is praying for the strength to forgive, she could not help the tears.

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