A story of four modern women with different personalities and backgrounds, who are brought together by fate: they meet in the queue while waiting to be served by a well-known prophet in the city. Lester is a fashion-conscious woman who loves drinking and travelling around the world, while her husband engages in extramarital affairs with young men. Fefe is a middle-aged woman in her late 40s, a teacher who loves her Seventh-day Adventist church dearly, yet she is driven to see the prophet because of her husband’s obsession with young women. Juju is a youth who has been hardened by poverty and feels shortchanged by her circumstances. Forced sexual work has resulted in two pregnancies by two married baby daddies. Last but not least, Sonia is a housewife in her 30s who discovers her voice as she unravels her experience with a paranoid, abusive, and narcissistic young husband. Through laughter and tears, these three women comically share their secrets. At the end of the day, does the prophet change their fate, or will a turn of events give them the answers they need? The play centres on religion, while exploring Third World capitalism, gender, and sexuality.
The Prophetic Place was presented at the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe, directed by Nonhlalo Dube and Thembelihle Moyo, in 2019. It was published in the Canadian Theatre Review, University of Toronto Press, 2022.