![]() Divya Dev is sensitive as the stuttering Ogun, who recovers the ability to talk when Oya falls in his arms. The production and the performance of The One World Theatre make the story remarkably translucent and easy to watch.Īlize Biannic from France succeeds in turning Oya’s radiant smile progressively into dramatic expressions. Still, the themes covered are universal and surely struck resonance last week with every Nepali and expat in the audience at the Theatre Village: social pressure, accomplishment, motherhood, dream and reality. “I would have never directed this play in the US with non Black actors,” admits director, Deborah Merola. The plot is set in an Afro-American context, which has nothing to do with Nepal. She then hesitates between passion with Shango and security with Ogun. When Mama Moja dies, Oya desperately runs after another target: getting pregnant. She refuses a track scholarship in a state university to stay with her suffering mother. Tarell Alvin McCraney’s In the Red and Brown Water is a lyrical tragedy set in the ‘distant present’ of the fictional town of San Pere, Louisiana, and relates the story of Oya, a young woman who ‘runs like the wind’. One World Theatre unveils a fascinating production of In the Red and Brown Water in Kathmandu
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