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A Chitenge Story
By Makambe K Simamba (BFA'13)
Directed and Designed by Kathryn Smith (BFA'12)
3 pm, April 1, 2016
David Spinks Theatre

Shaken by a male student's threat to rape and kill her, a young university student is suddenly plagued with night terrors stemming from a suppressed memory: being molested by a relative at the age of 5 in her native Zambia. After plunging into a deep depression, she emerges with a singular mission: to travel back to Zambia, find the identity of her abuser, and confront him.

There is a talk back session immediately following the show.

Makambe K Simamba - Makambe K Simamba is a University of Lethbridge graduate who holds a BFA in Drama.  She won the 2012 Alberta Playwright's Network Discovery Prize, the 2014 Ottawa Little Theatre National Playwriting Competition, and was a runner up for the 2013 Uprising National Playwriting Competition for her original play, MUD. Makambe was a member of the 2013-2014 Playwright's Unit at Obsidian Theatre in Toronto. She is currently working on a play called Two Sisters that received a public reading with the Ellipsis Tree Collective, with whom she has also worked as an emcee for public events and an educator. As an actor, select credits include SIA (Pyretic Productions), Medea (Chromatic Theatre), Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Ellipsis Tree Collective), The Lion in Winter, and The Madonna Painter, (University of Lethbridge). Most recently, Makambe wrote, produced and starred in A Chitenge Story, an autobiographical one woman show that created a platform to discuss healing from sexual abuse, as well as the opportunity for audiences to connect with various support networks in Calgary. A Chitenge Story will be workshopped and performed at UnoFest in Victoria in May 2016. Makambe is thrilled to experience and create art all over Canada.

Kathryn Smith - Kathryn resides in Calgary as a designer, director, and singer/songwriter. Since graduating from the University of Lethbridge in 2012, she has been collaborating with various companies in the music and theatre communities, as well as production managing and designing for the company Production Canada. Select theatre credits include: Good Night Ladies (Keyano Theatre); Benefit (Downstage Theatre); A Beautiful View, A Spark Extinguished, King Kirby (Sage Theatre); Helmuts Big Day (Red Phone Theatre); The After Party (Lunchbox Theatre); Chicago, Love Train (Stage West); Wizard of One (Storybook Theatre); Medea (Chromatic Theatre); Goblin Market, IFAO, IPUFF (Pape & Taper); A Chitenge Story (UnoFest Victoria); Death, Smee's Secret (The Tighty Whities); Equinox Vigil (Equinox Vigil Committee). Up next, Kathryn is putting the finishing touches on her solo EP, and developing a new puppet musical script: Timmy, Tommy, and the Haunted Hotel.