Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine: A Missionary Position June 28, 2012

“Mwine…is wired, vivid and insistent.” Time Out London

World premiere
A multimedia solo work for the stage written and performed by Ugandan American artist Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, A Missionary Position is a searing response to the rampant homophobia now gripping Uganda. The noted Los Angeles theater artist incorporates raw video footage and still photography—gathered over recent months on front lines of the African nation’s LGBT movement—and layers this documentary material with riveting portrayals of Ugandan gay prostitutes, gay priests and LGBT activists drawn from in-person interviews to create a complex investigation of the burgeoning resistance to state-supported oppression. A Missionary Position is the follow-up to Mwine’s internationally heralded one-man show Biro, about the eponymous HIV-positive Ugandan who illegally entered the United States to seek treatment.

Official Website: http://www.redcat.org/event/ntare-guma-mbaho-mwine-0