Chobe Sweeps The Table
Chippa Legodimo | Monday July 14, 2014 15:33
Apart from emerging overall champions, the drama group also clinched the Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director awards on the night.
The group beat Ba-ga-Mmanaana from the Southern region, 6 to 6 Theater Group from the Kgalagadi region and Teemane from the Central region.
All the groups were given the same script with the same characters and exact events.
However, Chobe improvised their script very well. Well enough to convince the judges and the crowd who cheered on throughout their enactment.
Perhaps it was the gay character in their story that worked well for them; the crowd appeared more interested in ‘Choma’, even though he played a minor role.
He seemed to add a much need spark on a chilly night when most of the audience was already losing interest in the performances.
Following some lukewarm drama performances, before and after Chobe’s showing, the audience was warmed up by some rib cracking breaking pieces from two comedians; Ouza Moratiwa and Oefile ‘Mawee’ Mokgware.
Moratiwa and Mokgware seemed the only two among the eight comedians with substance. While Mokgware rightly scooped first position, Moratiwa was only relegated to position three by the judges a decision which attracted criticism from the crowd.
Odirile Brooks was given second position despite lacking in both depth and authority on stage. Members of the audience seated at the back could hardly hear some of his words.
The first one to appear on stage, Moratiwa, immediately threw the crowd into stitches of laughter with this joke: “A teacher asked a student to spell the word nama and the students responded, ya eng?”.
On Suarez’s latest biting incident and suspension Moratiwa told the crowd, “they should have removed his teeth not suspend him, this suspension is not fair,” he said.
Then it was off to the now popular Kene ka kgalema television clip, in which he cajoled the speaker for trying to convince the nation that he was the right man to coach the national soccer team Zebras, “why mention that he played with Seretse? This was just a ploy to get the Zebras job,” he said.
But Mawee was to set the pace 30 minutes later.
The crowd was stunned when he immediately announced, “tiro yame ko Gabane ke go tshodisa basadi bana.” While everybody was trying to figure out what the young comedian was on about, he rattled the hall by saying, “I just stand in front of the clinic and carry these kids home, all of them.”
But his best moment was his rendition of the national anthem in sign language. He had done enough to convince both the crowd and the fans that anyone who would come after him would have to present something out of this world.
Desire Itani was too predictable, hence the judges’ comments to avoid the obvious stories.
Sendima ‘The Thriller’ made a decent effort but could not match the first two men’s magic and the worst ‘joker’ on the night, Tshoganetso Bojang, was simply out of depth hence he only spent four minutes on stage.