Africa

Off-Broadway Review: “Mlima’s Tale” at the Public’s Martinson Hall

April 20, 2018 | Off-Broadway, public > | Africa, Chris Walker, Cookie Jordan, Darron L. West, Ito Aghayere, Ivory, Jennifer Moeller, Jo Bonney, Joan Marcus, Jojo Gonzalez, Justin Hicks, Kenya, Kevin Mambo, Lap Chi Chu, Lynn Nottage, Mlima's Tale, Public Theater, Riccardo Hernandez, Sahr Ngaujah, The Public Theater, Thomas Schall

“I’m Mlima of the Great Plains. Eldest of my clan. I was tracked for many days, taken by a poison arrow. Why are there so many of you?! Mumbi? Koko? Do you hear me?” Mighty Mlima, “Kenya’s most famous elephant,” – the old, large elephant “with extraordinary tusks” – is murdered for those tusks by the Somali poachers Raman and…

Off-Broadway Review: “Sojourners” and “Her Portmanteau” at New York Theatre Workshop

Playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s “Sojourners” and “Her Portmanteau,” currently running in repertory at New York Theatre Workshop, are exquisitely crafted and skillfully performed explorations into the life of determined matriarch Abasiama Ekpeyoung-Ufot (the younger played by Chinasa Ogbuagu and the older by Jenny Jules), her two husbands Ukpong Ekpeyoung (played with a willful distraction by Hubert Point-Du-Jour) and Disciple Ufot (played…