Renowned dramatist, Smith Likongwe, has said there is need for Malawians to look at \u201cour own works\u201d as well as strive to possess valuable literature for posterity.<\/p>\n
Likongwe said this in an interview Monday following the launch of two books of plays The Chief\u2019s Blanket and Other Plays <\/em>and Living Playscripts: A Trilogy <\/em>at Blantyre Sports Club on Sunday.<\/p>\n Chancellor College (Chanco) Travelling Theatre led by Likongwe, has published the two books as part of documenting some plays.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to look at our own works and appreciate them. So I call upon people to grab these two books and appreciate the very high standards set,\u201d Likongwe said.<\/p>\n He said the books are selling at Central Bookshop in Blantyre and Maneno Bookshop in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n \u201cLiving Playscripts : A Trilogy <\/em>is selling at K7,500 while The Chief\u2019s Blanket and Other Plays is selling K6,500,\u201d Likongwe said.<\/p>\n During the launch on Sunday, according to Likongwe, there were extracts of plays done and that there was also auction.<\/p>\n \u201cThe response was very good. We are finally launching the two books again at Bridge View Hotel in Lilongwe. In Lilongwe there shall also be short performances of different extracts of the plays for people to appreciate and sample,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Living Playscripts: A Trilogy <\/em>contains a Malawian trilogy of the lives and times of three of the country\u2019s Presidents namely Bakili Muluzi, the late Bingu wa Mutharika and Joyce Banda.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not a book of history but rather it is a book of plays involving real-life personalities with real issues and situations aimed at being presented on stage,\u201d Likongwe said.<\/p>\n He said the title Living Playscripts <\/em>is derived from the fact that the plays stem from lives and decisions that affect real people during and after the reigns of the three leaders.<\/p>\n In the book, there are three plays \u2013 Bakili\u2019s Wit <\/em>(Bakili Muluzi), The Tragedy of Bingu <\/em>(Bingu wa Mutharika) and Amai\u2019s Turn <\/em>(Joyce Banda).<\/p>\n In The Chief\u2019s Blanket and Other Stories<\/em>, there are six plays written by budding and established playwrights.<\/p>\n \u201cInspite of the existence of formal education in Malawi, the country has largely remained an oral society with very little of its activities published. There are many plays created by Malawians but they are only performed and forgotten,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Renowned dramatist, Smith Likongwe, has said there is need for Malawians to look at \u201cour own works\u201d as well as strive to possess valuable literature for posterity. Likongwe said this in an interview Monday following the launch of two books of plays The Chief\u2019s Blanket and Other Plays and Living Playscripts: A Trilogy at Blantyre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64659","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\/64659","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=64659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64664,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64659\/revisions\/64664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}