'You western-backed goats,
They forced us into slavery and killed millions.
Now they want us to accept the sinfulness of homos.
It shall not work.'
In 2014, Uganda passed an Anti-Homosexuality Act. This short, startling play looks at what lies behind it.
Caryl Churchill's Pigs and Dogs premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by Dominic Cooke.
| – | Somebody says |
| – | President of Gambia |
| – | We will fight these vermins the way we fight malaria-bearing mosquitoes. |
| – | Somebody says |
| – | President Mugabe |
| – | If dogs and pigs don’t do it why must human beings? |
| – | Somebody posts |
| – | You western-backed goats. They forced us into slavery and killed millions. Now they want to downplay the sinfulness of homo. It shall not work. |
| – | Somebody says |
| – | Zuma, South Africa |
| – | When I was growing up an ungqingili would not have stood before me. I would knock him out. |
Anti Homosexuality Act 2014. Death penalty. Later amended to life imprisonment. | |
white school. | |
| – | Ethics Minister in Uganda |
| – | If I kissed a man I think I should die, I could not exist. It is inhuman. Just imagine Eating your own faeces. |
| – | Newspaper says |
| – | Two hundred top homosexuals. |
| – | Names, pictures. |
| – | Hang them. |
| – | President of Uganda |
| – | Ugandan independence in the face of western pressure. |
| – | Mugabe says |
| – | President of Zimbabwe |
| – | We have our own culture. |
| – | in America |
| – | member of a rap group |
| – | There is no word in any African language that describes homosexual. |
| – | But |
| – | sagoda never marry and wear skirts |
| – | ashtime dress like women and do women’s work |
| – | mumenke is a man-woman |
| – | wasagu is a lesbian |
| – | yan daudu |
| – | umukonotsi |
| – | m’zili |
| – | tongo |
| – | kitesha |
| – | chibadi |
| – | ovashangi |
| – | wobo |
| – | If I had been a man I could have taken a wife and begat children. If I had been a woman I could have taken a husband and borne children. But I am neither. I am wobo. |
| – | Americ... |
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