{"id":197039,"date":"2016-03-08T09:46:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T09:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=197039"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T09:46:30","slug":"lupita-nyongo-praised-for-broadway-debut-in-eclipsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/lupita-nyongo-praised-for-broadway-debut-in-eclipsed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupita Nyong’o praised for Broadway debut in ‘Eclipsed’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Star Wars actress Lupita Nyong’o has gained rave reviews for her Broadway debut – performing in a role she first played at drama school.<\/p>\n
Eclipsed, written by The Walking Dead actress Danai Gurira, is set during the second Liberian civil war.<\/p>\n
Nyong’o, who won the best supporting actress Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, plays the 15-year-old captive wife of a rebel warlord.<\/p>\n
Trade paper Variety praised her “intelligent” performance.<\/p>\n
The website Deadline said the actress “lights up” the stage.<\/p>\n
It described the play – set in a rebel compound – as a “major achievement”, with Nyong’o demonstrating “extraordinary” power.<\/p>\n