Word: legagneur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
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