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Article: So far, yet so close: an Off-Broadway hit strikes all the right notes for audiences in Harare, Zimbabwe.(Nikkole Salter and Danai Gurira)
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- American Theatre
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- July 1, 2006
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Actors expect the unexpected when a show hits the road. For Nikkole Salter and Danai Gurira, the first stop on the road on this late-April Friday is a makeshift black-box theatre halfway around the world from New York's Primary Stages, where their Off-Broadway hit In the Continuum got its start in September 2005. And the unexpected, much to the distress of all involved, involves a missing prop, a serving of spicy chicken and a rapidly approaching cue.
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Salter and Gurira have brought their two-hander--a vivid, moving, often hilarious set of themes and variations involving an African, an American and the day they both learn they're ...
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Transcript: Two Women, One Story 'In the Continuum'
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;
February 12, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... from Los Angeles, and Gurira, who grew up in Zimbabwe, were both working on ... sophisticated way. LUNDEN: Danai Gurira plays the callous overworked nurse in Zimbabwe who delivers the bad news to Abigail. Ms. GURIRA: The nurse is a personification ...
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