Today and every Sunday in March, Zainabu Jallo's play Onions Make Us Cry will show at the Freedom Park. The play is brought to you by Crown Troupe of Africa, your favourite dance-theatre company takes you on a weird journey through the dark mental walls erected around domestic violence. The play is directed by Segun Adefila.
Venue: Freedom Park, 1 Hospital Road, Broad Street, Lagos Island.
Date: March 3rd, March 10, March 17, March 24, March 21
Time: 6pm-8:30pm
Gate: N1, 500
Why do Onions Make Us Cry?
In 2010 Onions Make Us Cry had a reading at the Contacting The World International Forum. In the same period it was nominated for the NLNG Literature prize 2010. Onions Make Us Cry was read at the festival of new international plays in March 2011 at the LARK in New York. The play had full performances by the Crown Troupe of Africa in Lagos, Nigeria.
In November 2011, Onions make Us Cry was announced as one of the six winning plays of the National Studio London, Africa Project. Zainabu is one of the playwrights whose work got featured at the 9th Women Playwrights international conference in Sweden, August 2012. She has was offered a place at the Sundance Theatre Lab as writer in residency 2012 as well as a place in the 2012 Château de Lavigny,Maison d’écrivains Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt residency Laussane, Switzerland.
Meet Zainabu Jallo
In 2007, Zainabu was nominated by the Royal Court Theatre London, British Council and Ford Foundation Nigeria to join nine other young Nigerians to begin a ‘New Writing from Nigeria project’. In 2008 she was nominated by the same bodies to attend a summer writing residency at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
In 2009, Zainabu was given a fellowship for a three –month residency at The Global Arts village New Delhi, India where she also had readings of some of her work. Onions Make Us Cry, her second play got published. Her new play Holy Night has received a few readings and made it to the final round of the internationalist Playwright Contest with readings in New York late in 2012.
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