Ian Kiyingi Muddu is a writer, teacher and media producer. His academic and cultural
interests rotate around African theatre, cinema and literature, stories about minorities,
and the intersectionality of cultural histories and post-colonial power structures in
Africa. A chronic jilted lover, ahem, he is now enjoying a hiatus from love, ‘its sisters
and friends’.
There are two in one Tonderai Munyevus. I meet both of them on a snowy February evening at Brixton House, a new Off-West End theatre in South West London. The one on stage is a ruffler of feathers,...
When Abafumi went on what would be their last tour, Robert Serumaga who had not gone with his company on the Italian tour was back in Kenya fighting Uganda's 'return to the shadows'. Not with his pen, but...
African musical theatre seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. In the last couple of years, African directors have exhibited keen interest in the genre. Nigeria's Bolanle Austin-Peters with her Bolanle Austin-Peters productions (BAP) has, for instance,...
'They've locked us in here and they're going to wait for the virus to finish us off.’ Thus goes a caption on a WhatsApp GIF Dalen sends to fellow retail workers. The workers have just found themselves marooned...
Over the years, the fears and tears (and very rarely the cheers); the struggles of Ugandans have been captured through the theatrical lens of the Uganda dramatist. Ladies and gentlemen, 10 plays, 10 playwrights, 10 beautiful slices of...
Angella Emurwon is a playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. The name ‘Emurwon’ means seer, and Angella is already doing that in Ugandan theatre. I interviewed her to learn about her work, inspiration and process. The interview was by...
On the centre stage, where many an actor has strutted his stuff, sits a ghost light. Lonesome. Frail. Flickering. Such is the situation in many theatres round the world (with Africa, our Africa, not spared), lest a stray...
Directed and produced by Dr Nabila Farhat Siddiqui for the Daffodils Young Artists Society (DYAS), a children’s theatre group of the Daffodil School in Kampala, Beauty & the Beast is an adaptation of the eponymous fairy tale, first...
