REVIEW: Mlima’s Tale, Kiln (2023)
The Evil Trade in Ivory "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. "Introduction to Scene Eight Ira Mandela Siobhan as Mlima (Photo: Marc Brenner) Lynn Nottage's…
The Evil Trade in Ivory "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. "Introduction to Scene Eight Ira Mandela Siobhan as Mlima (Photo: Marc Brenner) Lynn Nottage's…
Yet large chunks of her Control Your Man toolkit are given to Alvita to voice without apparent irony or comment. Marry for money, Treat them mean, Deceive them, Shame them, Make them work hard at sex, (which for her appears to be exclusively heteronormative). Above all, Take control. She nearly loses control over the Fifth husband, but finally breaks him and takes it back.