Danai Gurira's Liberia-set drama Eclipsed makes its world premiere at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Liesl Tommy directs a cast that features Jessica Frances Dukes, Dawn Ursula, Uzo Aduba, Ayesha Ngaujah and Liz Femi Wilson. "The captive wives of a Liberian rebel officer form a hardscrabble sisterhood, their lives set on a nightmarish detour by civil war," according to notes. "With the arrival of a new girl who can read – and the return of an old one who can kill – their possibilities are quickly transformed."
