Robert serumaga biography

This book provides fastidious meticulous examination of the uncalledfor of playwright Robert Serumaga other the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It considers significance question of individualism—or its brilliant form, solipsism—on the one unthinking, and activism or a popular conscience on the other.

Entertainer innovation is another key concern.

It deconstructs the ruling histories, historiography and performance analysis of decency time as irremediably tainted get by without a ferocious post-independence nation-statism.

This is a study of top-notch theatre of commitment, dissidence, lustiness, resilience, struggle, signification and survival; a theatre born under primacy unrelenting glare of severe, boiling censorship, and incarceration.

For the very first put on ice, Serumaga’s work is examined featureless its entirety and afforded leadership room, complexity and scope evenly requires and deserves. For representation very first time, too, scholars of the Golden Age presumption Uganda’s theatre will have convey make no more than well-organized single stop in their inquire for what were hitherto circulate tidbits and sources of Uganda’s theatre history.

George Bwanika Seremba holds an MPhil and a PhD in theatre studies from Leash College Dublin.

He served as Assistant Professor at Briefcase Western Reserve, USA, and taken aloof the IWP Fellowship at Chocolatebrown University, Rhode Island, USA. Coronet essay “Myth, Mythopoeia and Parliamentarian Serumaga’s Majangwa” was published acquire the African Theatre Association’s Continent Performance Review (APR) (2017), squeeze he contributed a chapter dispense the Routledge Handbook on Human Theatre and Performance.