A musical drama titled, �A Slave�s Story�, written by young Ghanaian playwright Yaw Asiyama, and performed by K. Vision theatre group from England, will be staged at the National Theatre in Accra from Wednesday, August 1 to Friday August 3.
The triumphant story of survival spanning over 250 years began in 1781with the abduction of Araba, who, together with a group of people from her village, was captured, taken across the Atlantic and sold into bondage.
A friend of the village is responsible for their capture and is cursed by Araba. �There will never be happiness in your family and amongst your descendants till there is joy in mine,� she says, as she�s being hauled away. It ended several generations later with Arabella.
This drama would come to the stage in Ghana for the first time after a successful run in the UK!
A journey of ruthless challenges, this �masterpiece� was told in verse, in rich poetic language, and embraced by beautiful music. 250 years later, Araba�s descendants could well be walking amongst us.
Praised by no less a person than the Rev. Jesse Jackson, London�s Theatreland - West End � producer Jack Hylton and the BBC, the production has recently toured southern England, and would make a showing at this year�s Panafest before it hit the National Theatre.
Leading a crew and a cast of eight is Georgina Ampaabeng Mainoo, formerly of the Ghana National Theatre and currently the CEO of K. Vision Productions, a multimedia production company based in the UK. The show was intended to thrill theatre in Ghana.
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