Cake in Uganda

After successsful showings in three Canadian festivals, the team at NHP shipped the show off to Kampala, Uganda to fulfill the next step of the piece’s collaborative development.  Our companions on this leg of the journey include director Clare Preuss, actors Neema Bickersteth, Ash Knight and Jeremiah Sparks and producer Sandra leFrancois.

Our partners, Dynamo Theatre Company have offered us generous support and we were thrilled to begin incorporating actor Musa Luswata into the process in preparation for our presentation.

On Sunday, September 18, 2011 we unveil the outcomes of all this hard work courtesy of our presenters at the Bayimba International Arts Festival.  The festival also features a performance by our own Belladonna the Virtuous, backed by Uganda`s incomparable Janzi Band.

Come Monday we will find ourselves in Gulu with Dynamo Theatre members to conduct youth arts workshops and count our many blessings.  Our thanks for travel support provided by Cahoots Theatre, TAPA`s T.R.I.P. Program, and the Canada Council for the Arts as well as Toronto Arts Council for their support of the Toronto portion of the workshop.  We are grateful for the artistic contributions of Lisa Karen Cox, Jamie Robinson, Awaovieyi Agie and Nana Boateng Frimpong, as well as design work by Michelle Ramsay (lighting), Kevin Centeno (sound) and Isidra Cruz (set and costumes)