The Women Making Waves in Theatre in Africa Part 2
In most parts of Traditional Africa, theatre was a prerogative of the woman. Women were the...
Read MorePosted by The African Theatre Magazine | 15th May 2021 | Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, News, Nigeria, South Africa, Theatre and Gender, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe
In most parts of Traditional Africa, theatre was a prerogative of the woman. Women were the...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 21st Dec 2020 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, Uganda
When Abafumi went on what would be their last tour, Robert Serumaga, who had not gone with his...
Read MorePosted by Sylver Kyagulanyi | 18th Oct 2020 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, Uganda
The entertainment or creative arts industry is as old as humanity. It is one of the ways through...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 13th Sep 2020 | Covid-19, Essay, Uganda
Moses Tumwebaze is a full-time actor in the Ugandan Theatre industry. He is a member of The...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 17th Aug 2020 | Interview, Transcultural Collaborations, Uganda, United Kingdom
John Rwoth-Omack is a Ugandan-born theatre artist, bred and based in the UK. A lover of African...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 13th Jul 2020 | Essay, Playwriting, Uganda
If you want to understand a nation and its people, look no farther than its art. Through a...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 29th Jun 2020 | News, Theatre for Young Audiences, Uganda
STEM, that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics curricula obsession at the expense of...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 6th Jun 2020 | Interview, Playwriting, Uganda
Angella Emurwon is a playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. The name ‘Emurwon’ means seer,...
Read MorePosted by James Montaño | 4th Jun 2020 | Interview, Playwriting, Uganda
Lloyd Lutara (LL) is a multi-form storyteller writing and producing theatre, film, fiction and...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 4th May 2020 | Musical Theatre, Review, Uganda
It is a full house. Full house on a Friday? That’s rare here. Anyway, we’re almost packed like...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 23rd Apr 2020 | Acting, Interview, Uganda
The name ‘Rashida Namulondo’ will easily roll off any random tongue in the performing arts...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 17th Apr 2020 | Essay, Theatre and Art, Uganda
Rose Mbowa is an indubitable doyenne in Uganda’s theatre. At Makerere University, an ivy league of...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Nderitu | 26th Mar 2020 | Kenya, Musical Theatre, Uganda
Too Early For Birds, the popular Kenyan collective that stages historical stories, has announced...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 25th Mar 2020 | Essay, Uganda
The African theatre scene in the 1960s and the 70s was mainly peopled by men. But there were women...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 22nd Mar 2020 | Review, Theatre and Age, Uganda
Wondering what may draw young people to theatre? It’s a theatre about them, with them and...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 1st Mar 2020 | Review, Theatre and Dance, Uganda
We last saw them on stage in 2016. We thought they had gone down the way of most companies –...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Nderitu | 18th Sep 2019 | Applied Theatre, News, Theatre and Politics, Theatre for Young Audiences, Uganda
It is still not uncommon to hear various parts of the continent being referred to as ‘Anglophone Africa’, ‘Francophone Africa’, ‘Lusophone Africa’, and so on. In fact, there are more French and English speakers in Africa today than there are in France and England respectively!
Read MorePosted by Kaggwa Andrew Mayiga | 4th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Review, Theatre and Politics, Uganda
It is not a usual thing seeing Ugandan writers’ works celebrated years after they were created. Of...
Read MorePosted by Kaggwa Andrew Mayiga | 3rd Aug 2019 | Review, Transmedia, Uganda
Silent Voices Uganda has for many years now outdone themselves while producing theatre. From a set...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Nderitu | 17th Nov 2018 | Festivals, News, Transcultural Collaborations, Uganda
The venue is the Uganda Museum and performances from Kenya, India, Iran, UK, USA and the host nation will be staged. Below are teasers of some of the scheduled performances.
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