Insecurities Play On Love
Sep 16, 2011
WITH yet again another star-studded production, Bakayimbira Dramactors and Afri Talent may as well melt into one big group.
By Emmanuel Ssejjengo
WITH yet again another star-studded production, Bakayimbira Dramactors and Afri Talent may as well melt into one big group.
Their play, Kiri Bubi ku Ggolo ya Mutungo, is the kind that will get the audience giving the big stars applause for earning it – not just for being popular.
And that is what puts this play a step above others. It asks your popular actor to show cause for applause and not just stand on stage and be celebrated because they are known.
That there is reason for you to make a date with Bat Valley Theatre throughout the weekend.
Kiri Bubi ku Ggolo ya Mutungo is as long as long Afri Talent plays come. It is an unmistakably powerful and moving fantasia of rage, fury and fear; of insecurity, of love and hate – all imaginatively presented through a blending of realism, comedy, a pop-corn rhythm and gangster movie melodrama.
Mwogenza (John Segawa) is a gang leader going by the code of Black. But only the very trusted of his gang members even know this. A team of cops led by Baligonda (Sensuwa Bwanika) is assigned to hunt down the gang, especially the most feared leader, who has sworn that Baligonda cannot come out of this alive.
Detective Michelle (Ruth Kalibala) later falls in love with Black, and against any ethical considerations, she is going to save the man that will soon be the father of her child.
It is one production that will have theatre - goers divided.
Some will fall over its intensity, its undeniable commitment and the richness and authenticity of its language.
When Black backs up his crimes, he gives the impression of a people’s hero and not villain.
However, the structural aspects of the play are cumbersome and there is a lack in the clarity of idea. The plot is quite implausible in incident and detail.
In its final minutes, it turns into extreme melodrama.
There are up to six dead bodies lying on stage from gunfire. We are denied the high dignity of tragedy and this death is not even satisfying.
WITH yet again another star-studded production, Bakayimbira Dramactors and Afri Talent may as well melt into one big group.
Their play, Kiri Bubi ku Ggolo ya Mutungo, is the kind that will get the audience giving the big stars applause for earning it – not just for being popular.
And that is what puts this play a step above others. It asks your popular actor to show cause for applause and not just stand on stage and be celebrated because they are known.
That there is reason for you to make a date with Bat Valley Theatre throughout the weekend.
Kiri Bubi ku Ggolo ya Mutungo is as long as long Afri Talent plays come. It is an unmistakably powerful and moving fantasia of rage, fury and fear; of insecurity, of love and hate – all imaginatively presented through a blending of realism, comedy, a pop-corn rhythm and gangster movie melodrama.
Mwogenza (John Segawa) is a gang leader going by the code of Black. But only the very trusted of his gang members even know this. A team of cops led by Baligonda (Sensuwa Bwanika) is assigned to hunt down the gang, especially the most feared leader, who has sworn that Baligonda cannot come out of this alive.
Detective Michelle (Ruth Kalibala) later falls in love with Black, and against any ethical considerations, she is going to save the man that will soon be the father of her child.
It is one production that will have theatre - goers divided.
Some will fall over its intensity, its undeniable commitment and the richness and authenticity of its language.
When Black backs up his crimes, he gives the impression of a people’s hero and not villain.
However, the structural aspects of the play are cumbersome and there is a lack in the clarity of idea. The plot is quite implausible in incident and detail.
In its final minutes, it turns into extreme melodrama.
There are up to six dead bodies lying on stage from gunfire. We are denied the high dignity of tragedy and this death is not even satisfying.