WORKS

Kintu & Nambi:
An African Panto

Open Works Festival presents a work in progress performance of Kintu & Nambi: An African Panto.

A company of misfit actors with Sub-Saharan African heritage have just watched an English panto, but none of them get it!

As they learn the customs of a panto and what makes it work, together they decide to create their own but with an African twist! Settling on classic Ugandan folktale Kintu & Nambi.

The story features Kintu (a farmer boy) and Nambi (a celestial being) in their struggle to overcome the villainous Walumbe, Nambi's brother and the symbol of death and plague who threatens to steal their first born. With the help of Nambi's mother the Drag Queen of the stars and sky, Gulu, Gulu's idiot servant Kwete and Kintu's trusty cow Murife, they try to plot how they can live peacefully and thwart Walumbe's evil plans.

But the question remains, can the players truly bring the panto tradition and Africa together, or is it destined to flop?

Come along and decide for yourself!



Part of Open Works Festival