Saturday, August 1, 2015

Lupita Nyong'o Will Star in an Off Broadway Play About Liberian Women

Lupita Nyong’o is starring in her first off Broadway stage production, Eclipsed. Adding to the fact that it’s a feminist work, it’s a play written by Danai Gurira, the actress who plays badass Michonne on The Walking Dead.

Eclipsed—which originally premiered in 2009 in Washington, D.C.—centers around a group of women being held captive during the Liberian civil war.

According to The New York Times:
"Set in 2003 near the end of the civil war in Liberia, the play is about a group of women who are captives of rebels fighting the government. In a statement the Public Theater’s artistic director, Oskar Eustis, called the work a “feminist reading” of the African conflict that is “both heart-breaking and profoundly life-affirming."
The play will run from October 14 through November 8 at the Public Theater in New York, with previews starting September 29. 


Credit:NYTimes

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