{"id":7271,"date":"2012-02-16T16:19:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7271"},"modified":"2012-02-16T16:19:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:19:21","slug":"semo-returns-to-nanzikambe-arts-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/16\/semo-returns-to-nanzikambe-arts-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Semo returns to Nanzikambe Arts Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Part-of-the-Semo-play-1-553x450-300x244.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7279\" title=\"Part-of-the-Semo-play-1-553x450-300x244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Part-of-the-Semo-play-1-553x450-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>Lions Theatre Company led by its mentor and director, Thlupego Dunduzu Chisiza, will be re-launching a theatrical masterpiece, \u201cSemo\u201d which was interrupted in Blantyre on 18th DECEMBER 2011 and made Thlupego Chisiza spent a night at Blantyre Police Station in cell No 1. Chisiza was arrested because of this play now he is back again.<br \/>\nafter touring Southern, central and northern rergions, Semo is back with a great BANG! &#8211; if you missed it this is your last chance Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p><em>Semo<\/em>, the controversial play by Thlupego Du Chisiza hit the stage for the first time in Blantyre\u00a0 where extra-drama happened when the actor was arrested on stage during the performance by the Censorship Board . Lions Theatre\u2019s <em>Semo<\/em> has survived a sordid start and slippery reappearance to tour the northern and central regions of <em>Malawi<\/em> .<\/p>\n<p>Actor Thlupego Chisiza who was arrested for performing a play critical of the government says \u201cnothing can silence a strong and will-hearted man. Nothing can veil the truth and nothing can kill creative work of the genius and nothing can silence me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lions Theatre Company led by its mentor and director, Thlupego Dunduzu Chisiza, will be re-launching a theatrical masterpiece, \u201cSemo\u201d which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[168,1583,1584,1585,1586,258,1587,1484,1485],"class_list":["post-7271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-blantyre","tag-chasowa","tag-chisiza","tag-lions-theatre","tag-nanzikambe-arts-space","tag-malawi","tag-robert","tag-semo","tag-thlupego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}