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MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
Katori Hall’s Our Lady of Kibeho goes some way to offset this. Set in 1981, before the genocide begins, the play shows a society at a point when the seeds of division and violence have already been sown.
It’s set in Kibeho College, where Alphonsine — a striking debut from Taz Munya — Anathalie (Liyah Summers) and Marie-Claire (the engaging Pepter Lunkuse) are visited by the Virgin Mary and given a series of messages, culminating in a shocking premonition of Rwanda’s violent future.
