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Danai Gurira
is not only the sword-swinging, ass-kicking Michonne on “The Walking Dead” —
she’s also a playwright. In an interview with DuJour magazine, the 37-year-old actress talks about her
second off-Broadway screenplay “Eclipsed.”
Starring
actresses Lupita Nyong’o, Pascale Armand, Akosua Busia, Zainab Jah
and Saycon Sengbloh, the play highlights five Liberian wives of a warlord and a
Liberian peacemaker during the country’s civil war trying to define their
identities among the widespread violence.
Gurira, who
was born in America but raised in Zimbabwe, told the magazine that she was
fascinated by an image she saw of women in the Liberia
Civil War in 2003 and vowed to tell the story on stage one day.
“There were
some women rebel fighters who were getting attention in the Western press
because no one had ever seen anything like this,” she said. “I was raised in
Africa and I had never seen anything like it, women with AK-47s, dressed very
hip and looking formidable.”
Gurira her
research for the play in Liberia in 2007. With “Eclipsed,” she explores
the women’s complex perspectives as they laugh, cry and love throughout the story,
Gurira also told DuJour that the issues of violence and limited
resources she tackles in the country that still exists today.
“Unfortunately,
these are very current issues,” Gurira said. “And it is appalling that they are
very current issues. One would think we’d have figured them out by now, but we
haven’t and we still live in a world where women are disproportionally
victimized, attacked, put into inhumane circumstances and left to feel
perpetually unsafe. This is a huge global human rights issue that has not been
resolved.”
“Eclipsed”
is running at New York’s Public Theatre through November 29.
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