George Seremba

location_on Ontario, CA

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George Bwanika Seremba is an actor, playwright and scholar, born in Kampala, Uganda. It is also there, at Makerere University, that he did his primary degree. In December 1980, Seremba was abducted, interrogated, and sentenced to death at the hands of Milton Obote’s Military Intelligence. Having barely survived the botched execution, he eventually fled into forced exile in Kenya, subsequently resettling in Canada. There he worked as an actor and a playwright. His spine-chilling Ugandan experiences would be turned into his most renowned play Come Good Rain, for which he was to win a Dora Award in 1993. Good Rain and Napoleon of the Nile are the most well-known of Seremba’s plays, to date. Over the years, Seremba has given over 300 performances of his latter play on 3 continents. He also holds an M. Phil and PhD in Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and currently teaches at the University of Leipzig (Germany). His PhD dissertation (Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre) is now a monograph, published (2003) by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK). He has also published several essays and hopes to find a publisher for two volumes of his memoir (Wanton Boys and The Subird Sings Again) based (in part) on Come Good Rain.

Plays Available at the Canadian Play Outlet:

Along Human Lines: Dramas from Refugee Lives

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