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Speaker 1: Sad though two Weekend Breakfast happening in the arts.

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Speaker 2: It's twenty one minutes before nine o'clock. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: seven or two Weekend Breakfast with me go SIMP. Time

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Speaker 2: to look at what's happening in seven or two Land.

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Speaker 2: And this morning we start at the Market Theater Laboratory,

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Speaker 2: which is going to be playing hosts and it is

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Speaker 2: currently hosting a production called the Is Jimbo Say Too.

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Speaker 2: It's been described as a bold new theater production. It's

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Speaker 2: written and directed by Zinclet Zemba and is also performed

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Speaker 2: by an all female cast. And to tell us about it,

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Speaker 2: we are joined by writer and director at Zinkle Zimba Zincla.

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Speaker 1: A very good morning to you, Welcome to weekend Breakfast.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you too as well. Thank you for

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Speaker 3: having me this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time. So zimply tell

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Speaker 2: us what is is Jimbo Say Too?

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Speaker 1: About?

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Speaker 3: Right? So es Jimbo Say Too is a story that

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Speaker 3: takes place actual rights, particularly revolving around three boys who

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Speaker 3: are vigating life together and navigating friendshube together. So that's

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Speaker 3: in a natural that's what extum is about. It's about

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Speaker 3: boys living their life.

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Speaker 2: Together, and so what about the story was so important

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Speaker 2: for you to tell? What does you know through these

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Speaker 2: boys living their lives Eluctione and the in a Cassi.

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Speaker 1: What do we learn in with their lives?

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Speaker 2: What are the themes the story deals with through the

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Speaker 2: story of these three boys lives?

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Speaker 3: M hmmm. So the story has themes of friendship being

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Speaker 3: at the top because that's what brings them together, themes

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Speaker 3: of loyalty, themes of love and sacrifice as well. The

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Speaker 3: work was inspired by the fact that young people have

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Speaker 3: the pressure. I think I have the pressure to always

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Speaker 3: financially provide, the pressure to all solve problems that they

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Speaker 3: did not create but rather found existing. For instance, in

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Speaker 3: the story, Usen has an Ailien grandmother who's sick from

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Speaker 3: answer right, he feels the responsibility to take it upon

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Speaker 3: himself to make means of making money so that so

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Speaker 3: that he can help his grandmother. So it's such things

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Speaker 3: that yes, us as young people face where we come from, right,

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Speaker 3: and also the spirit which like when you're trying to

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Speaker 3: solve a problem, how things can turn it out of

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Speaker 3: control quickly because at the end something tragic happens and

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Speaker 3: that was not the intention they were doing. Things out

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Speaker 3: of love. The boys were trying to help him get money.

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Speaker 3: But because sometimes things do get out of control, then

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Speaker 3: you see something tragic happening in the story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so the story is about three young men

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Speaker 2: sim and as friends, but it is told through an

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Speaker 2: all female cast. Tell us why that decision to take

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Speaker 2: the story, the themes and tell it through women women performers.

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Speaker 3: Right, Because I believe that masculinity is a social construct.

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Speaker 3: It's something that's continuously rehearsed. It's taught. You're taught how

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Speaker 3: to become a man and what it means to fit

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Speaker 3: within that category of masculinity. And therefore, I wanted to

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Speaker 3: see how that would look if we do it with

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Speaker 3: female bodies, how they would embody such a thing. And moreover,

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Speaker 3: it allows the audience to overlook the gender that's presented

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Speaker 3: to them, but rather sit with the with the vulnerability

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Speaker 3: and confront the truth of the story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so, tell us about then, you know kind

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Speaker 2: of the process of putting the putting the stories together.

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Speaker 2: How long did it take you to write the scripts

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Speaker 2: or write the play, finding the right performers? What has

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Speaker 2: been the journey of putting together? Is Gimbo set too right.

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Speaker 3: So I started writing Stimbose two back in twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: four December during the Zimber holidays, right. So it took

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Speaker 3: me quite a long time because it kept changing. It

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Speaker 3: when during the year when we had our first showcasing

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Speaker 3: at school, I think it was around March, that was

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Speaker 3: a first version of it, right, And then we entered

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Speaker 3: the Yes Lips Festival, it changed again. So the writing

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Speaker 3: never stopped, right, It just kept on evolving and evolving.

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Speaker 3: And then up until now, which is this year, it

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Speaker 3: has changed from what it was before up until at

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Speaker 3: this point, so the writing has been a continuous thing.

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Speaker 3: In terms of the performance I've had the I've had

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Speaker 3: the same performance from from the beginning up until now.

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Speaker 3: So we've spent almost a year together doing this production

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Speaker 3: and trying to make it better every time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so what is this play for?

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Speaker 2: When you were putting together this production, writing the play,

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Speaker 2: rehearsing its who did you have in mind as I

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Speaker 2: guess your ideal viewer of this play.

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Speaker 3: I want to say my tears because my statement with

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Speaker 3: the play is to say I see you, right, but

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Speaker 3: also for our parents to see the measures that we

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Speaker 3: are forced to take under the conditions presented to us. Right,

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Speaker 3: it's everyone who's affected and everyone who's not affected, because

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Speaker 3: also at the end of the day, I want the

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Speaker 3: audience to live with empathy when the show ends. Right

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Speaker 3: that we quickly before we get to a conclusion of

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Speaker 3: judging people why they did what they did, we firstly

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Speaker 3: question what led them they write, how did they come

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Speaker 3: to make such irrational decisions or rather herd decisions or choices,

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Speaker 3: and we really question what was the situation behind it

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Speaker 3: because we get to see how the system continuously fails

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Speaker 3: young people. Right, So yes, that's fair.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So tell us how long the play is running

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Speaker 2: from it obviously opened this week on the right? How

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Speaker 2: long is it running? Where can we when is it chewing?

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Speaker 2: And wharehon we get gets right?

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Speaker 3: So it started on Thursday, which was the fifth March.

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Speaker 3: That was all opening Today we have a show at

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Speaker 3: three pm as well as seven pm, and our final

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Speaker 3: show is tomorrow at three pm. You can get the

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Speaker 3: tickets at web tickets or at the reception area when

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Speaker 3: you get to the Market theater and the show is

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Speaker 3: an hour long.

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Speaker 2: Great Sincla amust thank you very much for giving us

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Speaker 2: your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: A great pleasure having you on the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: That is writer and director of Is Timbose too, since

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Speaker 2: let Zimba joining us this morning,