Bunker Talk #155: Mufaro Makubika

Mufaro Makubika 

Mufaro Makubika is an award-winning writer of Zimbabwean descent from Nottingham. He won the Alfred Fagon Award for the best new play in 2017 with SHEBEEN which opened at Nottingham Playhouse before transferring to Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. Other credits include MALINDADZIMU (Hampstead Theatre), THIS IS NOT A COUP (Paines Plough) and WE NEED NEW NAMES (Fifth Word/New Perspectives and Brixton House). Mufaro also won the 2023 Theatre Royal Haymarket Writers’ Award sponsored by Donmar Warehouse and Access Entertainment. He has been on attachment with the National Theatre and was a writer in residence with Paines Plough Theatre Company. 

 Bunker Talks 

This event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue. 

Originally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists, writers, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020, over 150 talks have been hosted by Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded, edited, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue, capturing how artists, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/ 

Main Event Contact and URL

Michael Pinchbeck [email protected]

https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/talk-155/  

Host or Publisher MIGS: Migration & Interdisciplinary Global Studies