About us

Two Gents Productions is a theatre company based in London, UK.
It was launched in 2008 by the two Zimbabwean actors Denton Chikura
and Tonderai Munyevu and the German director Arne Pohlmeier. It is
now run by Tonderai Munyevu and Arne Pohlmeier as co-artistic directors

​Since inception we have presented many shows across Europe,
Africa, and Australia. 

​We regularly deliver workshops and outreach activities for school and
university groups as well as emerging and established actors,
directors and theatre makers. Our aim is to share our triumphantly
energetic, bare-boned, South African inspired style of theatre and to give
​a platform to migrant and mixed heritage theatre makers.

Our inspiration

At Two Gents, we draw a great deal of inspiration from
Woza Albert (1983):
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​“Mbongeni Ngema and Percy Mtwa met on such a township tour of Mama and the Load, a Gibson Kente musical. They both felt the need for further challenges, and in their questioning and reading came upon Grotowski’s Towards a Poor Theatre, and Peter Brook’s The Empty Space.

They decided to create a piece and hunted for a subject. One night in their touring bus, there was a heated argument on the Second Coming. What would happen to Jesus if he came back – to South Africa?

They began to read the Bible and to improvise. Finally they left Mama and the Load to concentrate on their piece. They approached Barney Simon, Artistic Director of the Market Theatre to collaborate with them because of his extensive experience in Black and non-racial theatre and because of the work that he had done in the creation of texts with actors.

​After six weeks of intensive collaboration with Simon – writing, improvising, scouring the Gospels and the streets of Soweto and Johannesburg – Woza Albert! was born.”