MoLoRa

2011

Culture Project's Women Center Stage presents The Farber Foundry Production of

MoLoRa

Created and Directed by Yael Farber

Adapted from the Oresteia Trilogy
Featuring Dorothy Ann Gould

MoLoRa, originally presented at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, marks South African playwright and director Farber’s first New York production since her acclaimed staging of Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise which was a smash hit at Culture Project in 2005. Like Amajuba, MoLoRa fuses a timely narrative with a specific musical world to create an event of extraordinary theatricality.

Set after the fall of apartheid, Farber’s MoLoRa reimagines the ancient Greek Oresteia to tell the story of her own country’s painful and extraordinary transition to democracy. As Klytemnestra and Elektra – mother and daughter, perpetrator and victim—sit to face each other in an open hearing, MoLoRa reenacts a watershed moment in world history, illuminating the universal and excruciating choice for any victim: to seek revenge or choose forgiveness.

“MoLoRa can be hard to watch... yet it leaves you with a more encouraging vision of humanity than anything you're likely to see anywhere else, in any medium.”

– New York Magazine

“Brilliant... the resonance to contemporary life in South Africa is unmistakable and shocking.”
“Farber uses the Ngqoko Cultural Group as a Greek chorus to striking effect”.  

– New York Post