National Theatre, Kampala played host to Batalo East Foundation's 2023 dance offering, Nambi, the African Sheildmaiden. From the way the theatre foyer was designed, the grass thatch, the imaginery African mediaval, it was clear it was more than...
Last weekend, Uganda’s only National Theatre was the venue for Charles Mulekwa’s comeback project, Man to Man, an ode to friendship. It was a quieter affair than the previous two weeks when the show played out at the...
Of course, Silent Voices has always got such technical aesthetics of lights, costumes and sound but this time round, you could sense they outdid themselves.
But the writing takes on a sport – football as collage to represent running a country. In this case, football the game seemed to be the country and Ugandans were the players.
It is a production that earlier on may not have promised much besides the flowery famous cast, yet when the curtains went up, it was clear none of them was there for romance or even the beauty of...
From punchlines and pros, the audience simply listened even to things that made them cringe. At times, it was just the actor's breath we would hear amplified by their body microphones while other times, it was camera clicks.
