5 STARS! “A sumptuous feast!” – Marin IJ
“Rich and rewarding… plays out with riveting force to a genuinely potent climax” – SF Chronicle
5 STARS! “The cast is so fantastic that it is difficult to think of superlatives worthy of these performances.” – TheatreStorm
Southern Africa. 1896. Against her family's wishes, a young Shona girl escapes a forced marriage arrangement by converting to Christianity and becoming servant and student to an African evangelist. However, as anti-European sentiments rise among her people, she must face an impossible choice – between colonial and ancestral ways of life. Read the playbill >
Featuring Jabari Brisport* (MTC debut), L. Peter Callender* (The Whipping Man), Elizabeth Carter* (MTC debut), JaBen Early* (MTC debut), Omoze Idehenre* (Seven Guitars), Jefferson A. Russell* (Fetch Clay Make Man) and Katherine Renee Turner* (Fetch Clay Make Man)
Recommended for mature teens and up
LENGTH OF SHOW – Two hours and forty-five minutes, including two ten-minute intermissions.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
“An impressive new work by an impressive young playwright” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), The Convert marks the Bay Area debut of award-winning Zimbabwean-American playwright Danai Gurira. She may be best known for her role in the AMC TV series The Walking Dead, but her plays have earned her “a reputation for hard-hitting drama” (Variety) and the Village Voice’s 2006 Obie Award for playwriting. Listen to the NPR radio interview | Read the SF Weekly interview