Ruined April 24, 2011

Entertainment and escape await guests at Mama Nadi's rain forest bar and brothel in civil-war-torn Congo. But is she protecting or profiting from the women she shelters, and how far will she go to survive? Inspired by interviews she conducted in Africa with Congo refugees, Lynn Nottage has crafted an engrossing and uncommonly human story with humor and song served alongside its postcolonial and feminist politics.