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Young actors from Boston Arts Academy pour heart and soul into fifth play of ‘Ufot Family Cycle’
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Young actors from Boston Arts Academy pour heart and soul into fifth play of ‘Ufot Family Cycle’
Since fall 2024, theaters around Boston have been hosting the nine-play Ufot Family Cycle by playwright Mfoniso Udofia. The fifth installment, “Kufre n’ Quay,” is performed almost entirely by Black and brown Boston Arts Academy students, many appearing in a professional production for the first time.
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Fourth play in Mfoniso Udofia’s ‘Ufot Family Cycle’ at Central Square Theater
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Fourth play in Mfoniso Udofia’s ‘Ufot Family Cycle’ at Central Square Theater
“Why let me go?” is a question no daughter should have to ask her mother. But young Nigerian Iniabasi Ekpeyong has arrived in the USA, where she was born, to reunite with her mother, Abasiama Ufot. After giving birth to Iniabasi 30 years ago, Abasiama let her then-husband return to Nigeria with their newborn. 
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