\u2019n Plaaslike dramaturg is onlangs as een van die Suidoosterfees se jong sterre van die seisoen aangewys.<\/p>\n
Mikyall Harris van Victoriapark in Worcester stel al van \u2019n jong ouderdom af in drama belang, maar het eers op ho\u00ebrskool regtig aandag daaraan begin gee. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk het in graad nege toneel begin doen, maar as \u2019n buitemuurse aktiwiteit. In graad 10, toe ons, ons vakke kon kies, was drama een van die keuses, maar daai tyd wou ek nog medies studeer, dus het ek toe nie drama as vak gekies nie. Ek het dit steeds as \u2019n buitemuurse aktiwiteit gedoen. Ek het ook dieselfde tyd begin gedigte en toneelstukke skryf. Dit was baie lekker; ek het dit baie geniet en selfs my vriende het toe vir my ges\u00ea ek is baie goed daarin,\u201d vertel Harris, \u2019n oudleerder van Worcester Gimnasium. <\/p>\n
In graad 11 het hy wel aansoek gedoen om medies te gaan studeer en ook \u2019n kans gevat en by die Universiteit Stellenbosch vir drama aansoek gedoen.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk is toe vir \u2019n oudisie genooi, maar het gedink daar gaan nie veel van kom nie. Hulle kies net 40 studente uit die hordes aansoeke wat hulle kry. Al die ander by die oudisie was so professioneel en \u2019n mens kon sien hulle het hard gewerk om voor te berei. Tot my verbasing was ek een van die 40. In 2020 het ek my driejaarkursus daar begin. Daarna, omdat ek so \u2019n diep liefde vir di\u00e9 kuns het, het ek verlede jaar besluit om my honneurs in toegepaste drama te voltooi en in Desember gegradueer.\u201d <\/p>\n
Maar selfs terwyl hy nog besig was om te studeer, is hy al genader vir \u2019n internskap as gevolg van sy vorige werke wat al by die KKNK en die Suidoosterfees opgevoer is.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk is vir \u2019n onderhoud genooi en was baie gese\u00ebnd om as \u2019n intern-draaiboekskrywer aan Kelders van geheime<\/span> te werk. My internskap het verlede maand ge\u00ebindig.\u201d <\/p>\n Sy toneelstuk, Vani wal af<\/span>, sal oor die volgende paar maande verwerk word en in 2025 by die Suidoosterfees debuteer. In sy skrywe het hy homself belowe om getrou aan sy komvandaan te bly.<\/p>\n \u201cEk het oorkant \u2019n vlakkie gebly. As kind het ek altyd die mense dopgehou en later het ek die ooms en tannies begin namaak. Ek is baie lief vir my mense en daar in die coloured<\/i>-gemeenskap is \u2019n magdom goed om oor te skryf. Ek is ook \u2019n gay man en gebruik my skrywe om die stigma daaroor af te breek.\u201d <\/p>\n Behalwe dat hy in ekstase is oor sy insluiting by die Nasionale Afrikaanse Teaterinisiatief (NATi) Jong Sterre is hy ook besig om een van sy vorige stukke, Suwalla Kassam,<\/span> in \u2019n fliek te herskryf.<\/p>\n \u201cDie toneelstuk is al by die Suidoosterfees en die KKNK opgevoer en het selfs \u2019n Kanna- toekenning vir beste komedie ontvang. Ek en my regisseur, Tamia Thompson, het besluit om Suwalla Kassam<\/span> in \u2019n fliek te omskep. Ons het by die Nasionale video- en filmstigting om finansiering aansoek gedoen. Ons wag nog vir hul terugvoer, maar het solank begin om die draaiboek in \u2019n rolprentdraaiboek te herskryf. Sodra ons die finansiering ontvang, wil ons graag teen die einde van die jaar met voorproduksie begin.\u201d <\/p>\n Hy het ook sy eie produksiemaatskappy, Vlakkie Productions, en sal die rolprent self vervaardig. 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