Images Theatre presents RUINED Written by Lynn Nottage Directed by Buddy Butler May 11, 2012

RUINED is a powerful, gripping, gut-wrenching play with authentic, live African music, singing, and dance set in a bar /brothel, in a mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The sexy, shrewd, proprietor, Mama Nadi both profits and protects the women whose bodies have become battlegrounds for the rebel soldiers and government workers, alike. The women who live and work at Mama's Place have been brutally raped, ravaged, and ruined and are caught up in a devastating and spiraling tragedy, yet they continue to fight to hold onto hope and their sanity. The soldiers and Government workers continue to war against one another and mark their territory. The fierce warrior perpetrators march in and out of Mama Nadi's taking what they want, and leaving more pain and devastation as a result. Cast features Lisa Lacy as Mama Nadi, Rob Anthony Gray as Christian, Ediambolo Lokoto as Sophie, Dell Grooms as Commander Osembenga, Kelton Howard as Mr. Harari, Natasha Greer as Salima, Marianna Sousa as Josephine, Delaire Doyle as Kisembe' and many talented others.

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