Content

Six misfit actors with Sub-Saharan African heritage have just watched an English panto - but none of them get it! So they decide to stage their own through Ugandan folk tale, Kintu & Nambi.

As they learn the customs of a panto and what makes it work, together they create something that no other panto has done before, through a truly African retelling.

In Kintu & Nambi, the coming together of Kintu (a farmer boy) and Nambi (a celestial being) they must 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.

Dates

R&D dates:
Monday 21 September - Thursday 1 October - London
Friday 2 October - Sheffield

Performances:
Saturday 3 October (2 & 7pm) - Sheffield Theatres

Roles

Roles Details

Title

Kintu

Content

Principal boy of the panto.

Kintu is the first person in Uganda, a farmboy and steward of the soil and the land overseeing and caring for it alongside his speechless best friend, Murife the cow.

Although he is dutiful he is bored of being the only person on Earth. He longs for connection and companionship and a person to share the Earth with. Falls in love with Nambi the celestial visitor from the Clouds.

Salary

R&D - 2 weeks workshop in London with Work-in-progress show in Sheffield. Fee - £1300 (£650 for 2 weeks) Return train travel & accommodation covered by production

Gender

Male Only

Age

20 - 29