Adia & Clora Snatch Joy

From Artistic Director Loretta Greco

“The Ufot Family Cycle has been a wild, beautiful, one-of-a-kind, city-wide odyssey — one that you’ve been on with us from theatre to theatre, falling in love with Abasiama, her  children and their journeys as deeply as we have. Adia & Clora Snatch Joy is the Cycle’s jubilant, heartfelt finale. Mfoniso Udofia’s rich, captivating language meets Michael Ellis Ingram’s extraordinary music in a rite of passage that feels both personal and expansive. This production is a radiant celebration of spirit, legacy, and the joy that can emerge when we dare to imagine more for ourselves and for one another.” 

From Director Awoye Timpo:

“Adia and Clora continue the fierce, messy and necessary work of becoming—wrestling with who they have been and moving toward their destinies. It is a joy to travel through time in song and text as we arrive at this luminous final chapter of the Ufot Cycle.” 

From Playwright Mfoniso Udofia:

“Adia & Clora Snatch Joy closes out 100 years of storytelling and, by the time it opens, will mark the culmination of 17 years of writing. I am so honored that The Huntington, along with producing partners across the city, made it possible—from the very beginning—for these plays to be seen. I cannot fully express what it means to have produced all of the Ufot Cycle plays—from the earliest, most tender “baby” play to the tried-and-true works—and now to return to The Huntington to mount the final piece: a folk opera. It feels right to me that the Ufot story ends in love and hope, and that Boston will be the first community to experience this final installment. I am deeply grateful, beyond words. I hope you’ll come, share in the joy, and carry a little of it with you.”