Onions Make Us Cry

By Zainabu Jallo

Onions Make Us Cry, an absolutely fascinating, unusual play. The playwright dares to create a fresh style with poetic dialogues and a brilliant use of metaphors!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: May 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481789196

Zainabu Jallo

ZAINABU HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A YOUNG POWERFUL VOICE IN AFRICAN THEATRE. HER PLAYS, CHARACTERISED BY MOVING MONOLOGUES AND DIALOGUES LACED WITH THE MUSIC OF POETRY AND BRILLIANT USE OF METAPHORS ARE ORIGINALLY REFRESHING! SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF AWARD WINNING, ONIONS MAKE US CRY AND SARAYA DANGANA

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© 2009, 2013 by Zainabu Jallo. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse   04/23/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-8918-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-8919-6 (e)

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Contents

Characters

Situation One

Situation Two

Situation Three

Situation Four

Situation Five

Situation Six

Situation Seven

Situation Eight

Zainabu Jallo’s Onions Make Us Cry was first drafted at The Royal Court Theatre London in August 2008, where she was an international Playwright in residence.

In 2009, she was offered a literary fellowship at the Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India where Onions Make Us Cry was first presented.

Winner of the National Theatre Studio London Africa Project, Onions Make Us Cry has received presentations and performances in Lagos, NewYork, UK, and Sweden. It continues touring in newer spaces.

Saraya Dangana, (2008) and Holy Night (2012) are two other plays by the author

She also has a collection of open style poetry, Some of the People I Am.

Zainabu is also a Sundance theatre lab alumni.

For You

Characters

Onions Make Us Cry was first presented at a reading in the Patanjali performance studio of the Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India in July 2009.

The cast was as follows:

SITUATION ONE