“This painting pays tribute to both the National Theater of Khartoum and the School of Drama at the University of Sudan. As a child, my father would take me to the National Theater to watch plays which fascinated me and opened my mind to the arts. And while studying at university, we visual art students moved in the same circles as the drama students who became my close friends. This painting fuses both sets of these memories for me. The central figure is both happy and sad as I was always amazed by the emotional range that the drama students displayed. This painting is entitled “Theatre Day” and was an important part of my solo show “An Anniversary”.