Casts from Hear Phrase
Ifeoma Fafunwa has been invited to stage extremely efficient play Hear Phrase! for a second season to the distinguished American Repertory theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. from January 26 via February 11, 2018. The much-applauded girls’s empowerment manufacturing made its U.S. debut on the award-winning theatre at Harvard Faculty campus closing 12 months, with every current supplied out sooner than opening night.
HEAR WORD! is an anthology of monologues, which cope with factors affecting Nigerian girls proper this second. This arresting and reliable stage play is a assortment of generational tales regarding the political, social and cultural parts affecting and limiting the lives of Nigerian girls. It is co-written and directed by current Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Ifeoma Fafunwa of @iOpenEye Productions.
The play choices a number of of Nigeria’s biggest stage and show actresses, along with Taiwo Ajai-Lycett, Joke Silva, Bimbo Akintola, Ufuoma McDermott, ElvinaIbru, Zara Udofia-Ejoh, Omonor, Rita Edward, Debbie Ohiri, Odenike, along with grasp percussionists - Blessing Idireri and Emeka Anokwuru.
Hear Phrase was described by award-winning novelist and journalist, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, as
“Scintillating and evocative” whereas Harvard professor of English, Biodun Jeifo acknowledged it’s “A strong feminine imaginative and prescient.”
As a result of the play made its Lagos debut in 2014, the current has continued to advertise out, every at home and abroad, and has been seen by lots of of audiences all through Nigeria.