A useful asset for the British Secret Service, is Garrigan the man on the inside, or does he have blood on his hands too? The first stage adaptation of the award-winning novel that inspired the Oscar-winning movie, The Last King of Scotland is an electrifying thriller about corruption and complicity. When Scottish medic Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician, he is catapulted into Amin’s inner circle. Idi Amin is the self-declared President of Uganda. He has joined Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Sadam Hussein, among others, in the ranks of dictators who seemingly knew no human bounds. There are few names in history as recognizable as Idi Amin. Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, Robert Hastie, today announces the full cast for the world première of Giles Foden’s The Last King of Scotland, adapted for the stage by Steve Waters and for their major revival of Charlotte Keatley’s My Mother Said I Never Should in a co-production with fingersmiths.įor The Last King of Scotland, Gbolahan Obisesan directs Tobi Bamtefa (Idi Amin Dada), Akuc Bol (Kay Amin), George Eggay (Archbishop), Peter Hamilton Dyer (Perkins), Baker Mukasa (Jonah Wasswa), John Omole (Peter Mbalu-Mukasa), Joyce Omotola (Malyam, Journalist One, Barmaid), Mark Oosterveen (Stone), Daniel Portman (Nicholas Garrigan), Hussina Raja (Priti) and Eva Jane Willis (Marina Perkins). Whitaker on Idi Amin in Last King of Scotland. Opens Friday, November 3, at the Ridge Theatre Even in a decade full of high-profile mass murderers (Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, General Suharto, Jorge Rafal Videla), Idi Amin Dada was by far and.
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