Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o speaks to reporters at Villa Rosa Kempinski
hotel in Nairobi on June 30, 2015. PHOTO | BILLY MUTAI |
NATION MEDIA GROUP
Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o will make her New
York stage debut later this year, starring in a play set amid the
horrors of the Liberian civil war.
The Public Theater in Manhattan said the production of "Eclipsed" would run from September 29 to November 8.
Nyong'o,
32, will play "The Girl" in what the theatre called "a powerful story
of survival and resilience" about women finding and testing their own
strength in a hostile world.
The
award-winning play sees captive wives of a rebel officer band together
to form a fragile community, until their lives are upset by the arrival
of a new girl.
It is written by Zimbabwean-American actress Danai Gurira, best known for her role on hit television series "The Walking Dead".
The
Public Theatre's artistic director, Oskar Eustis, said it was a
"brilliant play, ripped from the headlines, that looks at the terrible
conflicts in post-colonial Africa".
Nyong'o
was born in Mexico, brought up in Kenya and educated at the Yale School
of Drama. She shot to international fame by winning an Oscar in 2014
for her role in "Twelve Years a Slave".
Liberia,
Africa's oldest republic and formed by freed American slaves, was
devastated by two civil wars that killed around 25,000 people between
1989 and 2003.
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