NEW YORK—When two vibrant women take stage at off-Broadway’s intimate Playroom Theater, one senses we’re in for an intriguing and unique evening in the theater.
As it turns out, the two gifted African women, Thuli Dumakude and Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, provide, without any outside help, a nuanced musical and spoken presentation of the worlds each inhabits.
They sing—with voices of extraordinary power, easily filling the theater. They dance—the younger, Tawengwa, displaying enormous physical grace and prowess, and the ageless Dumakude presenting her own intense, magnetic style. They speak—through storytelling and personal reminiscence, of their own histories and the histories of their particular homelands.
Obie- and Olivier-winning Thuli Dumakude as she appears in "Africa My Beautiful." Donnell Culver
