Play: Blissful Hell
Group: The Ebonies
Playwright: J.W Ssembajjwe
Director: J.W Ssembajjwe
Red carpet premiere at: Theatre La Bonita
Preview by: Nigel Nassar

SO how is it likely that you will find bliss in hell? Oxymoron style is what we call this technique that Ebonies director J.W Ssembajjwe is employing in the group’s latest full length play, Insatiable Blissful Hell – Sebukuule.

It is another of those plays the group has staged to highlight some societal vices and concerns. Having previously tackled issues like exploitation of the poor by the rich in Societal Equilibrium, our hospitals’ wanting situations in Daisy and the dangers of prostitution in Agony and Ecstasy among others, the Ebonies have moved on to another
issue – cross-generational sex.

The play also highlights sub-themes like the rot among the judiciary, which has more often led to injustice. Ssembajjwe at some point takes you into the mind of the corrupt official, the stuff the NSSF saga was made of.

Yet, the story is light in nature. It kicks off with a dance piece partly choreographed by former director of Kombat Dancers, Michael Kasaija, now manager of the Ebonies.

Then it graduates to a point where a young beauty goes to the US, leaving her boyfriend behind, only to return and find he got a ‘sugar mummy’ with sinister intentions.

This play also introduces new Ebonies stars you have not seen before.