‘Eclipsed’ shows on Broadway to be dedicated to Boko Haram victims

In an effort to shine a light on the hundreds of girls abducted from a school in Nigeria two years ago, all performances of the Broadway play Eclipsed will be dedicated to the still-missing victims.

Playwright Danai Gurira says that each future performance of her play will be dedicated to a girl who has been abducted by the Boko Haram and will be named in her honour.

Says the playwright: “This is a play that wants to continue to be a movement.”

Eclipsed, starring Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o, is about enslaved women in Liberia’s 12-year civil war. Gurira also plays the katana-wielding walker assassin Michonne on AMC’s The Walking Dead.