Arts & culture in Nairobi and East Africa Theatre & dance
Echos from the Lake (KITFest)
A Luo-language physical drama based on the epic of Nyamgodho Wuod Obare, with partner acrobatics, aerial work, Ohangla rhythms and nyatiti music.
About the event
A physical drama based on the Luo epic of Nyamgodho Wuod Obare. A poor fisherman pulls a supernatural woman out of Lake Victoria, and sacred cattle rise from the lake with her as a blessing from the lake spirits. His arrogance leads him to insult her; she takes her cattle and fortune back into the lake, and he is left on the shore, slowly turning to stone.
The ticket page describes it as a physical drama about greed, arrogance and our relationship with nature, using ensemble movement, Ohangla rhythms, partner acrobatics, aerial work and nyatiti lyre music. It is performed in Luo.
Good to know
- Performed in Luo
Organiser
Event information from
- Ticket page theatreke.com
Details come from the organisers' own pages and can change; please check with the organiser before you go.
