{"id":62616,"date":"2018-03-21T05:55:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T03:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=62616"},"modified":"2018-03-21T05:55:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T03:55:27","slug":"kwathu-drama-group-cancels-easter-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/03\/21\/kwathu-drama-group-cancels-easter-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwathu Drama Group cancels Easter shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>K<\/strong>wathu Drama Group has announced that it has cancelled its Easter shows.<\/p>\n<p>The popular group which recently staged their old production <em>Alibe Pa bwino<\/em>, was expected to stage a play titled <em>Umboni wa Mwana <\/em>on Easter Saturday at Blantyre Cultural Centre (BCC) and Gymkhana Club on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The play was written by the group\u2019s spokesperson Bon Kalindo better known as Winiko.<\/p>\n<p>Kwathu\u2019s director, Eric Mabedi, who has been taken ill and hospitalised at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Blantyre confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Easter shows have been cancelled as members have not had enough time to rehearse. At the moment I am in hospital I have been taken ill and if all goes well I might be discharged Wednesday (today),\u201d Mabedi said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was responding to treatment and was better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will communicate the new dates. It\u2019s also unfortunate that I will miss the graduation of my first born son Mungo Wednesday (today) at Bingu International Convention Centre in Lilongwe (BICC),\u201d Mabedi said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would have loved to be at his son\u2019s graduation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been telling my son to work very hard and I am happy he has successfully finished his studies at Lilongwe University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been at BICC and Bunda doing drama but it could have been better to attend my son\u2019s graduation so I am sad that I won\u2019t be there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwathu Drama Group has announced that it has cancelled its Easter shows. The popular group which recently staged their old production Alibe Pa bwino, was expected to stage a play titled Umboni wa Mwana on Easter Saturday at Blantyre Cultural Centre (BCC) and Gymkhana Club on Easter Sunday. The play was written by the group\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62621,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62616\/revisions\/62621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}