Ashwyn Mberi Pleading For Actors Recognition

The young multi-talented performance artist, director, actor and play writer Ashwyn Mberi raised in Zimbabwe advocates for actors compliance in Namibia. Mberi attended his primary and high school in Zimbabwe, and then he developed a strong passion and love for theater. He later on moved to Namibia in 2013, to study drama at the University of Namibia. During his first year of University, the techniques of theater started to kick in. He by then developed the passion for theater to be able to produce and inform.

Mberi acted in two plays; “The Vow of Soprano” and “The Mad House” and then wrote and directed the latest theater play “Tales of Roses in Concrete”. For the 2014 Theater Awards, he got nominated for “The Best Newcomer” and Best Male Actor”. He embraces all his talents so that each one of them gets the same amount of attention and allowing him to grow them.

The African Phenom well bounded artist sees acting as an imitation of real life, that gives social lessons, teaches emphasize and understanding of the people’s realities. Mberi explained that, actors are people who express what’s going on in today’s time, they express our realities and they also express our wishes. Mberi contends that the economy should invest in movies the same way they invest in arts and any other related work. The Namibian actors are trying so hard to be recognized by the Government and the industry at large, which is a very hard challenge for them.

“There are good ideas and good scripts out there, but the verdicts comes from who funds the project. More funding must come from black cooperatives, to be able to build up their own work. There must be enough funding for black creatives, acting is just like any other job, there’s so many elements that can’t be adapted to the spotlight. The funding needs to be directed to those who don’t have funding, we don’t have experience, you don’t put us on paper. We have got a performance value and people need to be keen to Hear African stories”. Ashwyn Mberi argued.

The voice of expression Mberi, requests for the decentralization of art. He claims that Artistic work is not just happening in Windhoek, the country needs more theaters, infrastructures and more deliberate attention to the Arts industry. He calls for more Drama Colleges, more decentralized theaters because Windhoek doesn’t represent the whole Namibia, it cannot be the only voice, Namibians need more arts of expression, more investments to put in hardcore cash to build the craft and then see the results.

The born performer concluded that people need to be well grounded. He attempts to show people that, they don’t have to be just one thing, all that is needed is to embrace ones’ self. “Everything we have over here is built as a result of ideas and what follows ideas is expression”.