The
33-year-old stunned at the Eclipsed opening night afterparty on Sunday
night, as the rave reviews for her performance in the Liberian Civil War
play.
Hours
before taking to the stage at the John Golden Theatre, the Mexi-Kenyan
revealed on Instagram that she had in fact played the role of The Girl
before.
In a
cute note penned to fans, she listed '12 things you need to know before
you see Eclipsed', providing some background on the conflict, the
setting and the people involved.
'I
first played my character as an understudy in Drama School,' she
revealed. 'I never went on, and I promised myself back then that I would
play "The Girl" some day, somehow, somewhere, so it’s mindblowing to
get to do it on Broadway.'
Her co-stars (L-R) Zainab Jah, Akosua Busia, Saycon Sengbloh and Pascale Armand all scrubbed up nicely for the afterparty too
The play, set in 2003, tells the story of five women near the end of the Second Liberian Civil War.
It
is almost entirely set in a small one-room shack where three of the
women are being held by the Commanding Officer of a rebel faction, who
basically uses them as sex slaves.
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