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Danny Glover speaks at ECLIPSED Student Matinee

Danny Glover joined us at Curran's ECLIPSED student matinee on March 15th for a powerful post-show dedication to kidnapped and missing girls from the school in Chibok, Northern Nigeria, infamously taken by the Boko Haram years prior—and many of whom are missing til this day.

It was a thrilling moment and beautiful message to the Bay Area's young students but also sobering. ECLIPSED is a play that celebrates the power of naming—naming our pain, our joy, and more memorably, naming ourselves. In the spirit of this idea, the dedication after each performance specified—by name—one of the victims of that unimaginable day of horror. Hearing these names aloud in the theater gave ECLIPSED an eerie resonance to today’s political climate as refugees from war-torn countries and women forced into sexual slavery continue to dominate headlines.

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Eclipsed

ECLIPSED, by Danai Gurira, directed by Liesl Tommy, is the story of five extraordinary women brought together by upheaval in their homeland of Liberia. They forge a close-knit community, one that inspires them to feats of increasingly greater strength.

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ECLIPSED at the Curran

Curran's historic stage door alleyway was made famous in the classic 1950 film All About Eve as the place where Eve Harrington waits outside the stage door for Margot Channing. The ladies of ECLIPSED photographed by Little Fang Photography.

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Liberian Girl

Local Zambian writer, Namwali Serpell, looks at how ECLIPSED speaks to Liberia's history, and our own by examining the local and global feminisms that run through ECLIPSED.