Mlima's Tale (US edition)
by Lynn Nottage

"Those of you who don’t believe in ghosts are likely to think again after seeing Mlima’s Tale, Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, endlessly echoing portrait of a murder and its afterlife… Each character, inhabiting a rung on an ascending ladder of power, is very clearly defined but without grotesque caricature… [Nottage] packs a wealth of cultural, political and economic detail into each scene, from Maasai superstitions to the statistics of the illegal ivory trade."

— The New York Times

"The world Nottage has brought to the stage is rich with detail, its characters complex and engaging."

— Time Out New York

"Eighty straight minutes of searing brilliance."

— TheaterMania

"Mlima’s Tale is yet another towering American drama. While the play bears little relation to The Emperor Jones, it shares the relentless urgency and pulse of O’Neill’s 98-year-old masterwork…after Ruined and Sweat and Mlima’s Tale, we might well start to discuss O’Neill and Nottage in tandem."

— New York Stage Review