Our Lady of Kibeho
by Katori Hall
Nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement
In 1981 at Kibeho College in Rwanda, a young girl claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary who warned her of the unimaginable: Rwanda becoming hell on Earth. She was ignored by her friends and scolded by her school but then another student saw the vision, and another, and the impossible appeared to be true.
Hailed as one of ‘the 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century’ (The Guardian) and ‘the most important play of the year’ (The Wall Street Journal, 2014), this vibrantly theatrical meditation on faith, doubt and miracles is inspired by the extraordinary events in Rwanda that captured the world’s attention.
Marking 25 years since the Rwandan genocide, this striking drama now had its London premiere at Stratford East in a remount of James Dacre’s critically-acclaimed Royal & Derngate production.
Director: James Dacre
Associate Director: Francesca Murray-Fuentes
Designer: Simon Kenny
Lighting: Charles Balfour
Composer: Valgeir Sigurdsson
Sound: Tony Gayle
Associate Designer: Ruth Hall
Associate Sound: Bella Kear
Movement: Diane Alison-Mitchell
Drama Therapist: Wabriya King
Voice & Dialect: Hazel Holder
Fights: R.C.Annie
Casting: Ginny Schiller
Production Photographs: Marc Brenner
Cast
Giles Terera
Michael Balogun
Ralph Davis
★★★★★ ‘Astonishing’The Guardian
★★★★ ‘Atmospheric and fascinating’ The Times
★★★★ ‘Haunting and intelligent’ Financial Times
★★★★ ‘Uplifting’ Daily Mail
★★★★ ‘Highly accomplished’ Telegraph
★★★★ ‘Moments that make the hairs on your arms stand on end’ Londonist
★★★★ ‘Powerful… unbearably poignant’ Time Out
★★★★ ‘Extraordinary’ Evening Standard
★★★★ ‘Luminous’ The Arts Desk