Veteran actress-singer Onyeka Onwenu is set to grace the stage again with not just an acting role but singing and dancing in a new play Speaking Out alongside her colleagues Patience Ozokwo and Kate Henshaw.
The organisers of the play recently made this known on social media.
Written and compiled by Chukwuma Okoye from the original works of Tony Marinho, Speaking Out uses a surfeit of female experience to tell a story driven by a musical force as directed by the award-winning founder and director Kenneth Uphopho.
Following the success of Ada The Country, with its new Musical stage performance; the 30 act all-female cast musical explores and highlights the journey of the girl child from birth, through childhood and adulthood, all the way to motherhood.
Beginning with a celebration of the birth of the girl child Speaking Out takes a roller-coaster ride through her daunting growth in a large gender prejudiced environment. This inequitable society plagues her every step, from the celebration of her birth through such typical challenges as child labour, education, female trafficking, dating, sex, spousal abuse, divorce and single motherhood. Singed but tireless she emerges through all odds with her daughter, stronger with dignity and pride, determined to live her life in full.
The play is set to hit the stage from January 1, 2022, at the Agip Hall Muson Center, Lagos.
