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Robert Bellarmino Serumaga (1939 – September 1980)〔 was a Ugandan playwright. ==Life== Born to a poor Roman Catholic family in Buganda, Serumaga was raised by his mother, Geraldine Namotovu. He won scholarships to study at St Mary's College, Kisubi and St Henry's College, Kitovu. He studied economics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he encountered Irish theatre and the Theatre of the Absurd. He returned to Uganda in 1966〔"Robert Serumaga", ''Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance''. (Reprinted online ) at answers.com.〕 or 1967.〔 Initially employed as a government economist, he soon moved towards the theatre. He founded the National Theatre Company in 1967, writing ''A Play'' (1967), ''The Elephants'' (1970) and ''Majangwa'' (1971) for them. These plays were all influenced by absurdism, the lack of narrative action mirroring the stagnation of Ugandan society under Milton Obote.〔 In 1971, the year Idi Amin came to power, Serumaga founded a private theatre group made up of fourteen school leavers.〔 Initially known as Theatre Limited,〔 the group was later renamed the Abafumi ("Storyteller") Theatre Company.〔Gikandi (2007) has the name as Abafumbi.〕 Serumaga drew on the theories of Constantin Stanislavski and Jerzy Grotowski to train his company in the psychological identification of actor and character. More fundamentally, he created a new dramatic form for Abafumi. By means of an abstract drama of physical movement and dance, political criticism of Amin could be enacted without censorship:〔 ''Amerykitti'' was even performed at Amin's invitation at the 1974 Organization of African Unity Meeting in Kampala, with Amin describing it approvingly as "gymnastics".〔 Becoming disillusioned with Amin, Serumaga left Uganda in 1977.〔"Robert Serumaga", in Hans M. Zell, Carol Bundy & Virginia Coulon (eds), ''A New Reader's Guide to African Literature'', Heinemann Educational Books, 1983, pp. 482-4.〕 In exile in the late 1970s, he was involved in the liberation army that ousted Amin in 1979. He helped form the subsequent coalition government, briefly serving as Minister of Commerce under President Yusuf Lule.〔 Robert Serumaga died in mysterious circumstances in Nairobi in 1980,〔 reportedly of a brain haemorrhage.〔〔(Douglas Killam, ''Literature of Africa'' ), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004, p. 182.〕 The Serumaga Organization, a non-profit organization run by Serumaga's daughter, is named in his memory.〔(Serumaga Organization )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Serumaga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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