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Ogwama (Tonika Cheek '99), recently widowed, has violated a serious law which mandates a specified period of mourning. Rather than pay the proper respects to her husband's spirit which mysteriously "still wanders in the bush," she cavorts with Uloko (Jerry Legagneur '98), a fellow villager, and soon becomes pregnant...

Author: By Fabian Giraldo, | Title: Melodrama Can't Sink 'Wedlock' | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...tree, Muhammad gives the most memorable performance. She is engaging and her movements across the stage purposeful and powerful. One could only wish to have a mother so fiercely loyal that she would be so bad in an effort to defend one's post-mortem honor. Cheek and Legagneur transmit their characters' annoying qualities of boundless naivete and excessive idealism very well, though in general both were lacking in subtlty of emotion (not a serious liability in a melodrama of this magnitude). Legagneur's Gratuitous Shirtless Scene provided a clue to the audience as to why Ogwama would be willing...

Author: By Fabian Giraldo, | Title: Melodrama Can't Sink 'Wedlock' | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

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