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Photo Coverage: Public Theater Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Opening Night of ECLIPSED, Starring Lupita Nyong'o

By: Oct. 16, 2015
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The Public Theater presents the American play Eclipsed, written by Danai Gurira. Directed by Obie Award winner Liesl Tommy and featuring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o in her New York stage debut, this powerful story of survival and resilience opened at The Public Theater earlier this week, October 14, and will now run an additional two weeks through Sunday, November 29.

The complete cast of Eclipsed features Pascale Armand (Bessie), Akosua Busia(Rita), Zainab Jah (Maima), Lupita Nyong'o (Girl), and Saycon Sengbloh (Helena).

Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) comes to The Public in the New York premiere of ECLIPSED, the stunning, deeply moving play by award-winning Zimbabwean-American Playwright/Actress, Danai Gurira (co-author of In the Continuum and Michonne on AMC's hit series "The Walking Dead"). Amid the chaos of the Liberian Civil War, the captive wives of a rebel officer band together to form a fragile community - until the balance of their lives is upset by the arrival of a new girl. Drawing on reserves of wit and compassion, ECLIPSED reveals distinct women who must discover their own means of survival in this deeply felt portrait of women finding and testing their own strength in a hostile world of horrors not of their own making. South African born Liesl Tommy(Appropriate and The Public's The Good Negro) directs this magnificent story of survival and resilience.

ECLIPSED features scenic and costume design by Clint Ramos; lighting design by Jen Schriever; original music and sound design by Broken Chord; and voice and dialect by Beth McGuire.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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Saycon Sengbloh, playwright Danai Gurira, Pascale Armand, Akosua Busia, director Liesl Tommy, Zainab Jah, Lupita Nyong'o and Oskar Eustis

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Saycon Sengbloh, playwright Danai Gurira, Pascale Armand, Akosua Busia, director Liesl Tommy, Zainab Jah, Lupita Nyong'o and Oskar Eustis







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