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Conjurer of worlds: from richly imagined epochs to unsparing satires, Lynn Nottage's roving imagination channels history's discards into drama.
American Theatre, October, 2005 by Gener, Randy
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four years ago Lynn Nottage crossed the goat-filled countryside of Senegal and Gambia with her butt suspended in midair. It was her first journey to Africa; in the company of her husband, filmmaker Tony Gerber, she was crammed with other passengers inside a minibus rushing through the region's infernal traffic. "It was a hideous bus ride," she recalls, laughingly. "For 10 hours my ass did not touch the plastic-covered seat."
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The secondhand Renault she was in, a staple of public transportation in Senegal, is popularly called a car ...
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