Nora of Nigeria.(ROAMING SPOTLIGHT)(Theater Review)
American Theatre, January, 2005 by Gener
DENVER, COLO.: In OyamO's A Selfish Sacrifice--opening Jan. 20 at Denver Center Theatre Company, starring Kim Staunton (in photo), Terrence Riggins, Charles Weldon and Harvy Blanks, and directed by Israel Hicks--the wife of a Nigerian diplomat in New York City is blackmailed by an unscrupulous African-American money-launderer.
Aku, OyamO's Christian Ebo heroine, had once borrowed money to save her sick nusband (a Yoruba) from the certainty of falling victim to ethnic cleansing and Nigerian unrest. Recently appointed to the United Nations, Aku's spouse, Akinyele, treats her mostly ...
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