Out of East Africa: the show must go on for Uganda Orphans and Batwa Pygmies, in the wake of cross-border violence, civil wars, disease and devastation.(SPECIAL SECTION: CULTURES IN PERIL)

From: American Theatre | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Nottage, Lynn | Copyright information

How far will you go to find a play? I found my answer last summer when on a whim I purchased a plane ticket to Uganda in hot pursuit of an idea. Director Kate Whoriskey and I had long bandied about the notion of creating a theatre piece centered around the lives of women and girls caught in the middle of the devastating armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It was all wonderfully abstract, until I convinced Kate that the only way to understand the physical, s...

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