Let your craft speak for you — Playwright to theatre players

FOR Ghana’s theatre industry to attract the attention and investment it deserves, playwright and creative director Kuta Body Alone believes practitioners must first make the industry impossible to overlook.

According to the KUTA IMAGES Creative Lead, the government is juggling a long list of competing priorities and cannot be expected to focus solely on theatre. For that reason, the responsibility falls largely on creatives themselves to push the industry into the spotlight.Ghanaian Culture Blog.

In a recent conversation with the Graphic Showbiz, Kuta Body Alone, real name Kuuku Korsah Enninful, said theatre players cannot afford to sit back and wait for support to come to them. They have to elbow their way into the conversation.

“As a reviving and struggling industry, we are likely to be sidelined, but it depends on the players to be loud enough so we can be noticed like the film and music industry,” he said.

Sharing his thoughts on the current state of theatre in Ghana, he described the industry as one still battling to regain its strength despite its enormous potential.Graphic Sports Updates

“Honestly speaking, I will say the state of theatre in Ghana is fighting for revival, infrastructural support and funding, taking into consideration how formidable the industry is,” he explained.

While he acknowledged some positive signs from government, he stressed that much more remains to be done, particularly in the areas of infrastructure and funding.

I think the government has the theatre industry in its good books. The fact that the government partnered some media houses to celebrate the recent Mother’s Day through theatre is a step in the right direction.Movies.

However, infrastructure and funding are still inadequate and like Oliver Twist, the industry can only ask for more,” he said.

Kuta Body Alone also admitted that theatre risked being overshadowed within Ghana’s wider creative economy, but maintained that industry players themselves must take part of the responsibility.

He credited some ‘heavy lifters’ currently keeping the stage alive, name-checking fellow practitioners including Kobina Ansah, Latif Abubakar, Francis Tetteh Nutakor, Isaac K. Owusu and George Quaye for their relentless efforts to keep the industry alive and relevant.