27 May 1999 Edition
Theatre: A brave and gripping performance
BY TARA O'LIATH
Dublin's City Arts Centre launched its two week multicultural arts festival last week and as part of the festival, in association with the African Cultural Project, presents Come Good Rain, written and performed by George Seremba.
Playwright and actor Seremba grew up in Uganda under the Idi Amin and Milton Obote regimes, where he was tortured and exiled for his activities as a political activist.
Come Good Rain is his moving account of childhood and student life recounting the oppression in his Country and his final days in Uganda when Amin's army tortured him and left him for dead.
This powerful piece of writing is a testament not only to the strength and courage of George Seremba but to the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
This work astutely depicts the tyranny and oppression suffered by hundreds of people, seen painfully through the eyes of a man who had to leave his country, his family and an entire life behind and now displays great bravery in telling the tale.
This one-man show, that has the ability to move you to tears, is an amazing, powerful piece of theatre that will stay with you long after the final curtain has fallen.
Come Good Rain runs until Saturday 29 May in the City Arts Centre, Moss Street, Dublin.
Dublin's City Arts Centre launched its two week multicultural arts festival last week and as part of the festival, in association with the African Cultural Project, presents Come Good Rain, written and performed by George Seremba.
Playwright and actor Seremba grew up in Uganda under the Idi Amin and Milton Obote regimes, where he was tortured and exiled for his activities as a political activist.
Come Good Rain is his moving account of childhood and student life recounting the oppression in his Country and his final days in Uganda when Amin's army tortured him and left him for dead.
This powerful piece of writing is a testament not only to the strength and courage of George Seremba but to the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
This work astutely depicts the tyranny and oppression suffered by hundreds of people, seen painfully through the eyes of a man who had to leave his country, his family and an entire life behind and now displays great bravery in telling the tale.
This one-man show, that has the ability to move you to tears, is an amazing, powerful piece of theatre that will stay with you long after the final curtain has fallen.
Come Good Rain runs until Saturday 29 May in the City Arts Centre, Moss Street, Dublin.