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MISANGO ARTS ENSEMBLE COLLABORATING WITH ProPerArts creation to produce the play next year,

OBAT MASIRA

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Public Awareness on Men’s Sexuality Through Drama; JPR’s New Play

Regarding the impact of ED, JPR says that within our African cultural setting, where men’s abilities are closely linked to their sexual prowess, you can begin to appreciate why the inability to perform in bed, linked closely to the physical well-being, can have severe psychological consequences. A man losing `it’ quickly becomes a pariah, to be commonly regarded as a societal failure and suffers from low esteem affecting both the work output as well as happiness. This is no condition to wish on any one, for it elicits the very negative in ourselves, and can lead to decline to levels of the sub-optimal, and worse still, to the very destruction of ones existence. Many men live in the shadow of themselves, fearful of speaking about what has befallen them, lest they be ridiculed, despised and made outcast, by the very loved ones they cherish. Even the relationship with your own wife changes, and home is no longer the man’s castle, but a shrine of torture and torment.

The concept for the play was developed out of a series of conversations spanning three decades (1977-to date) and was conceived by three well-known theatre artistes, Elisha Wandera, Conrad Makeni and JPR. The play is set to soon premier in Nairobi in four major Kenyan languages: English, Kiswahili, Kikuyu and Dholuo. Currently, negotiations are ongoing with leading theatre groups as well as well known actors to collaborate in the productions with performances earmarked for the period before Christmas, 2012. The performances will also be filmed for the benefit of the many in Kenya and beyond. It is dedicated to a former friend of Elisha and JPR, Mohamed Yassin Ismael.

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