We Are proud to Present
about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa from the German Sudwestafrika Between the Years 1884 - 1915
Directed by Nigel Semaj
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Written by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by Nigel Semaj
Intimacy Direction: Teniece Divya Johnson
Set Design:Oscar Escobedo
Costume Design: Celeste Samson
Lighting Design:Christopher Wong
Sound Design: Nigel SemajAssistant Director: Bridget Wiggan
Associate Director: Elizabeth Muriel
Production Stage Manager: Caro Schott-Sutton
Assistant Stage Managers: Kayla Dunne, and Tryston
October 2022
Muhlenberg College - Baker Theatre -
Rehearsals descend from collaborative to absurd as a group of idealistic actors — three black and three white — gather to tackle the challenge of theatrically presenting the little-known story of the first genocide of the 20th century: the extinction of the Herero tribe at the hands of their German colonizers.
Armed only with boxes of letters from German soldiers they sent home to their wives and families, our characters navigate how to tell the history of this Genocide when the only record that remains is of the perpetrators’ story.
