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Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education is so much more than a “One Woman Show.” 

The overall effect of this play is stunning and deeply moving – moving one to tears at an emotional level and moving each individual to want to find a way to make a difference.

Marshalling her considerable creative forces and once again singlehandedly conjuring a wildly diverse array of characters, Anna Deavere Smith schools us from the front lines of education vs.race in these not yet United States.

Theater needs an audience to fulfill its mission, to engage with the entertainment being produced on the stage.

The show features 10 of Nigeria’s top actresses performing monologues and songs that address the trials the country’s women endure.

There are so many forces at work in this awful story: political, social, religious, certainly misogyny. But Nigerian playwright Ifeoma Fafunwa says that if the world is to make an honest reckoning of how and why women are oppressed, women must ask themselves, “What’s my responsibility? What did I do to create this world?”

The struggle for women’s rights takes a much different form in Nigeria.

The one who transforms in a heartbeat from a harangued village woman to a sexy afrocentric feminista, in such convincing fashion, that they exist as two instead of one, line so perfectly drawn that the only worthy diagnosis will be that she has a multiple personality disorder…