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Onions Make Us Cry

Originally published in 2011, Zainabu dares to create a fresh style with poetic dialogues and brilliant use of metaphors in this play. Onions Make Us Cry has been described as an absolutely fascinating, unusual play.

Onions Make Us Cry has been performed at the following locations:

The Lark, New York. (Full scenic reading)
National Theatre Studio London. (one of the six winning plays for the Africa project)
National Theatre Lagos
Södra Teatern Stockholm.( Scenic reading)
Sundance Theatre Lab, Utah
Patanjali studio New Delhi
Terra Kulture, Lagos
Bogobiri House, Lagos
Arojah Royal Theatre, Abuja

Zainabu Jallo’s Onions Make Us Cry – Recorded Live – Performed in French.

Live reading from the Avignon Festival Based on Onions Make Us Cry by Zainabu Jallo Adapted by Carole Karemera

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Holy Night

It is Christmas Eve. Eight bombs have gone off! Veteran mourns the death of his goldfish while he waits for his family to return home. He tells his stories to Ibrahim, who has been injured and sits at his doorstep, who also, has never seen the sun. Somewhere else, five strangers who are trapped in a butcher’s shop share their deepest secrets in the cold dark night. Holy Night has been performed at Bogobiri House, Lagos, and at various other locations.

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Poems for A Century (Anthology)

A hundred years after unification, the most populous African nation has oscillated from being great to being fickle, from colony to independence and dependency, from peace to war to ungraceful insecurity, from military dictatorship to civilian oppression and profligacy and much more of the many contradictions of a complex national polity.

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Die Erde Ist Gewaltig Schon, Doch Sicher Ist Sie Nicht (Anthology)

From 2011 to 2019, Martin Kušej directed the Munich Residenztheater – eight politically dramatic years from the hopes of the Arab Spring to the crisis of liberal democracies. Kušej and his ensemble always saw their work as an artistic examination of this present and opened up traditional theater to new forms.

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Lighting the Way (Anthology)

From 2011 to 2019, Martin Kušej directed the Munich Residenztheater – eight politically dramatic years from the hopes of the Arab Spring to the crisis of liberal democracies. Kušej and his ensemble always saw their work as an artistic examination of this present and opened up traditional theater to new forms.

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Opera & Music Theatre (Anthology)

Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.