Gawuluguma is yet another production play by Cbs radio presenters. The play highlights all the difficulties the ‘presenters’ as they prefer to call themselves went through during the period the Buganda station was still off air.
The biggest part of the play is mainly run by the kaliisoliiso crew. I.e. Abby Mukiibi, Kato Lubwama and Abu kawenja. The three perfectly weave into each others’ jokes as they continue ribbing themselves. They make it so typical of the live radio pragramme that they even use their real names on stage.
“Bano abasajja oba tebagwako bisessa?” (Can’t these guys run out of jokes), asked one lady from the audience who was so engrossed in laughter before pulling out a hankie to rub her tears of joy. With a sea of rib crackers, Mukiibi told one of an old man who was scratching his spectacles, when asked why he was doing so, the old man said his eyes were itching so he needed to scratch them. His friends advised him to directly scratch the eyes instead. The old man replied with a question: “what do you do when your bum itches you, do you directly scratch it or you scratch your trousers?”
This is the second time the play Gawuluma is being staged. The first time it was before the re-opening of cbs radio. “However due to public demand we decided to bring it back” said kawenja one of the lead actors. Like most Ugandan stage productions it also does not fall short of love, lies, betrayal and, this the trio use as yet another platform for campaigning for Buganda policies including soliciting money towards the reconstruction of the Kasubi tombs.
The play written by Martin Oscar Kintu is directed by Abby Mukiibi. It slightly tackles other national issues like violence against women and unemployment. One can still catch them at Bat Valley Theatre every Tuesday in a comedy show Akandolindoli for a weekly dose of laughter.
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