THEATRE CIRCLE - Mlima's Tale by Lynn Nottage

About the Event: 

Following its acclaimed 2018 world premiere at the Public Theater in New York, Mlima’s Tale makes its UK premiere at Kiln Theatre (formerly the Tricycle Theatre). 

Mlima is known as one of the last ‘Great Tuskers’ – elephants with tusks so large they touch the ground. When he is murdered for these magnificent tusks, Mlima’s ghost follows those connected to his death. From poachers, to government officials, to ivory carvers, he watches as capitalism, greed and corruption marks everyone in the ivory trade.

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage and directed by Miranda Cromwell, this powerful and unforgettable story leaves its mark long after the lights go down.

About the Creative Team:

Lynn Nottage (YSD '89) is a playwright and a screenwriter, and the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Recent work includes the book for MJ the Musical (Broadway), the libretto for the Intimate Apparel Opera (LCT), and Clyde’s (Broadway, 2ST, Goodman Theater), and co-curating the performance installation The Watering Hole (Signature Theater). Past work includes Sweat; Ruined; the book for The Secret Life of Bees; By the Way; Meet Vera Stark; Intimate Apparel; Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por’knockers; and POOF!. She has also developed This is Reading, a performance installation in Reading, Pennsylvania. Lynn is a member of the Theater Hall of Fame, and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (among other awards). She is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama and is also an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts and a member of the Dramatists Guild.

She recently directed Death of a Salesman on Broadway, and The Beekeeper of Aleppo opened at the Nottingham Playhouse. She directed Rockets and Blue Lights written by Winsome Pinnock for BBC Radio 3, which won an Oncomm award for best radio drama and was then staged at the National Theatre. Miranda is also the Artistic Director of Twisted Theatre, a diverse collective of artists making theatre in immersive and site-responsive ways.