Nigerian award winning actress Bikiya Graham-Douglas, has been selected among Africa’s biggest
and talented theatre actors to perform at the 2016 Cape Town Fringe Festival, which will take place from 22nd of September to 8th of October 2016.
WAIT is written by Dipo Agboluaje, directed by Kenneth
Uphopho and produced by Beeta
Universal Arts Foundation, This critically acclaimed piece
first debuted at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Dublin, Ireland as part of the
Africa Day Conference 2015 and also showcased at the British Council Lagos
Theatre Festival 2016 to a rousing audience. It highlights the
strength of the African woman as she challenges a system that forces her into
early marriage and tries to deny her an education because she is a woman.
According to her: I’m thrilled WAIT has been selected. Girls should
be allowed to be girls, their innocence should not be stolen by forcing them
into early marriage and every woman has a right to be educated. The
message of WAIT is important and I’m honored to lend my voice to the cause.
Bikiya stays true to her core of promoting Theatre Arts
in Nigeria, and is becoming one of Nigeria's sought after stage performers and
actresses. She has successfully starred in and produced a number stage
shows alongside starring in movies, such as For Colored Girls, Surulere, Flower
Girl, The Vagina Monologues, Iya-Ile, Lunch Time Heroes, Shuga and she can also
be caught in the season 6 of
Jenifa’s Diaries amongst others. She will once again be the
power house that she is LIVE on stage at the Theatre Festival in South Africa
representing Nigeria.
Beeta Universal Arts
Foundation is being supported by Ford Foundation to participate at
this important event on the Continent’s Art Calender.
Showing Details below:
Venue: Cape
Town City Hall Auditorium, Darling St, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
Show days and time:
SEP 22ND 17:00, SEP 23rd 19:00, SEP 24th 17:00,
SEP 25th 19:00, SEP 27th 17:00 & SEP 28th 21:00
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Instagram: @bikiyaGD, @beeta4theatre and @CTFringe
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