Kenya set for return of iconic Sarafina musical

The musical was planned to be performed in October last year but the Kenya National Theatre was closed for renovations.

Stuart is bringing a totally new cast from the last performance of the musical on stage. “The whole production is brand new, the sets are bigger and nobody in this production was in the original one that we did but the stage manager is the same.”

Lorna Lemi will be playing Sarafina while Wakio Mzenge is playing Mary Masembuko. The musical is a duplicate of the 1992 drama which takes fans through the life of a young black South African girl struggling for freedom during the apartheid.