Eight lives. One river. One suitcase and a home that needs to be re-learned.
Eight lives. One river. One suitcase and a home that needs to be re-learned.
A monologue driven ceremony about migration, border precarity, and the grief of return.
About the Play
Bazobuya is a monologue and song-driven stage play about migration, border precarity, and the complex grief of return.
Structured as an intimate monologue and song-driven production, the play maps the human landscape behind headlines of xenophobic displacement.
We meet: Thabani, a history teacher turned Uber driver counting permit expiry dates; Simba, a spaza owner with 180 seconds to decide what a life is worth; Umdala Ndlovu, an elderly neighbour who hides children under his floorboards; Blessing, who refuses to slash his crops; Chipo, 17, born in South Africa to Zimbabwean parents, but claimed by neither country; Bona, who carries the silent weight of the Limpopo; and Thando, who returns home with a suitcase that contains not money, but seeds.
Lyrical, political and deeply tender, Bazobuya is both archive and ceremony. It ends not with arrival, but planting.
By Mgcini Nyoni | Approx. 65–70 mins | A Two-Hander, performed by Percy Soko and Mpumelelo Nyoni