Episode 18: An Interview with Thabani Tshuma - Part Two Performing

In this masterclass on the art of spoken word performance, Thabani Tshuma talks about terror and excitement, empowerment and nerves, feelings and nuances, dangerous spaces and diary dumps, duty of care to an audience, curating a feature set, stage presence and theatricality, writing for page vs stage, poems as mini plays, memorising and rehearsing, forgetting lines and improvising, the open mic testing ground, audience as editing partner, trust, getting featured and remembering your why.