Bentley play asks crowd to ‘re-member’ slain African leader
Many playwrights would likely shy away from making a gory, politically motivated murder the centerpiece of their work. But Ugandan Charles Mulekwa has no such fear. With his still-under-construction play “Remember Lumumba,” Mulekwa recently asked an audience of Dartmouth students to ponder just what it would be like for a victim of homicide, rendered limbless and now floating around in an otherworldly ether, to carry on conversations with parts of his body, contemplating whether or not his butchered soul should return to earth. More »
