This week, the Huntington Theatre announced one of its most ambitious projects ever alongside more than two dozen collaborative partners. Over the next two years, the company will produce nine plays by Mfoniso Udofia known as the Ufot Family Cycle on stages and venues across Massachusetts.
Playwright Mfoniso Udofia at the announcement for her nine-play project, the Ufot Family Cycle at Boston City Hall.
“These plays are a reinvention of the narrow immigrant narratives we have grown accustomed to,” said Huntington Theatre artistic director Loretta Greco. “They are led by an intrepid matriarch, Abasiama Ufot, and are rich explorations of family, a place where all the messy, complicated business of being human meets cultural and generational intersectionality with big-hearted honesty, bravery, and humor.
“No one play is alike in its themes, genre, or form,” Greco continued. “But like siblings, their DNA is undeniable. Each play can stand alone with great integrity, but why would you only want to see one?” “Composer Nehemiah Luckett’s music blends together sacred, secular and choral influence,” he said. “Opera brings together people and communities through music and song, storytelling, dance, spoken word, visual art, design, every artistic and performance art discipline that one could imagine. So it feels fitting that this highly collaborative piece is the culminating work for this tremendous collaboration across our city.
There will also be productions held at the Prior Performing Arts Center at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester to bring the production to Central Massachusetts, where Udofia grew up and where one in five Worcester residents are immigrants.Though the stories aren’t autobiographical, Udofia’s own parents first arrived in Texas from Nigeria in the 1970s. Their experiences inform her plays.
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