Freedom Burning - Eclipsed By Danai Gurira

Civil war is raging in Liberia.

Four young women - members of the rebel army - are struggling to survive. Yet sometimes, the greatest threat comes not from the enemy’s guns, but from the brutality of those on your own side.

With the arrival of a new girl, who can read, and an old one, who can kill, how might this transform the future of this hard-bitten sisterhood?

Funny, compassionate and daring, Eclipsed is, as the Washington Post puts it, 'a surprisingly vivacious portrait of helplessness'.

Caroline Byrne directs Faith Alabi (Maima), Michelle Asante (Helena), Joan Iyiola (Bessie), T'Nia Miller (Rita) and Letitia Wright (Girl) in the second and final production of Gate Theatre’s Freedom Burning season.