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San Francisco Playhouse presents "Nollywood Dreams"
Sep 28 - Nov 04, 2023
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7pm; Wednesdays, 2pm & 7pm; Fridays ,8pm; Saturdays, 3pm & 8pm; Sundays, 2pm
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Jocelyn Bioh's romantic comedy spotlights the 1990s explosion of Nigeria’s film industry Nollywood. Aspiring ingenue Ayamma longs to be a movie star and lands an audition with Nollywood’s hottest director. Between cat fights with the resident diva and igniting sparks with Nigeria’s “Sexiest Man Born,” Ayamma’s dreams of a thrilling life might just come true. Bay Area theatre veteran Margo Hall directs this West Coast Premiere
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Ayamma wants to be a Nollywood star in Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy, now in a West Coast premiere at
SF Playhouse. Nollywood is Nigeria’s glittery film industry; Bioh is the Ghanian-American
playwright whose “School Girls; Or the African Mean Girls Play” and others have been seen
nationwide. Inevitably, in Ayamma’s struggle to rise to the top, there is plenty of hilarious conflict.
Margo Hall directs.
Jean Schiffman
Contributing Writer, Theater
San Francisco Playhouse