Thursday, April 28, 2022
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 onstage is a ruffler of fea…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:39PMMonday, October 12, 2020
African musical theatre seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. In the last couple of years, African directors have exhibited a keen interest in the genre. Nigeria’s Bolanle Austin-Peters…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:48AMSunday, September 13, 2020
Moses Tumwebaze is a full-time actor in the Ugandan Theatre industry. He is a member of The Ebonies, one of the few operational theatre companies in the country, who ply their trade at Theat…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:38PMSunday, August 16, 2020
John Rwoth-Omack is a Ugandan-born theatre artist, bred and based in the UK. A lover of African stories, he directed Bad Blood Blues for Sheffield Theatres, probing such disturbing questi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:05PMSaturday, July 18, 2020
“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 jus…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:17PMMonday, July 13, 2020
If you want to understand a nation and its people, look no farther than its art. Through a country’s paintings, poetry or drama, the treasures, the dreams and aspirations of its people are…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:50AMMonday, June 29, 2020
STEM, that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics curricula obsession at the expense of the arts, leaves our children as properly endangered species. Readers of Charles Dickens’…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:03AMFriday, June 5, 2020
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:07PMSunday, May 3, 2020
It is a full house. Full house on a Friday? That’s rare here. Anyway, we’re almost packed like sardines. I’m sitting next to a lovely three-year-old and her mother. Lovely, until she s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:55PMWednesday, April 22, 2020
The name ‘Rashida Namulondo’ will easily roll off any random tongue in the performing arts community in Uganda. She is an actress, a poet, and the director of The Sophie Muwanika Institu…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:13PMFriday, April 17, 2020
Rose Mbowa is an indubitable doyenne in Uganda’s theatre. At Makerere University, an ivy league of sorts on the continent, where Mbowa spent most of her life, her name is often invoked in …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:27AMWednesday, March 25, 2020
The African theatre scene in the 1960s and the 70s was mainly peopled by men. But there were women like Efua Sutherland, Ama Ataa Aido and Rose Mbowa that stood shoulder to shoulder with the…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:05AMSunday, March 22, 2020
Wondering what may draw young people to theatre? It’s a theatre about them, with them and specially designed for them. This is what The Arrival, performed on 22 February 2020 at the Nation…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:19AMWednesday, February 26, 2020
We last saw them on stage in 2016. We thought they had gone down the way of most companies – consigned their talents to oblivion. But on February 1st, 2020, Dance Theatre Uganda returned t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:24AM 
