The production’s staging is elegant and austere; the look, music and story beguiles
, an adaptation of Stravinsky’s mini morality play with music written during the horrors of the First World War. Featuring a new libretto from the poet Titilope Sonuga, it runs to Sunday.the bird from which Sonuga’s story draws its name. The word in the Twi language of Ghana means to go back and retrieve what was forgotten.
In Nova Scotia, an aspiring soldier played by Olaoluwa Fayokun sits in the woods writing a letter to his mother. “What is the price of a dream?” he asks. The young man finds out soon enough. The choreography by Pulga Muchochoma was fluid and minimal, save for a brilliant dance-like moment when Fayokun’s character seemed to be physically wrestling with his inner demons. The staging was elegant and austere; the look, music and story beguiled.
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