After Kony

After Kony: Staging Hope is a documentary film that follows a team of actors, playwrights, and activists in Uganda who use theater to help former child soldiers or sex slaves that escaped their abductors explore the traumatic events they have been through. Through dramatizing their stories, the teens are able to share their voices with the community and the world. The film captures the incredible humanity and emotion between the children and adults as they construct dramatic theater performances based on their lives. The short plays address HIV/AIDS, peace, and reconciliation. These dramas also pose the taboo question; "When an escaped child soldier returns home, are his parents able to accept him?" "Is the community ready to embrace him as well?" The result is an epic play that attracts over 1,000 people to the camp and restores a sense of peace, hope, and accomplishment to these children who have endured so much.