Adia & Clora Snatch Joy

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.”  

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 Composer Michael Ellis Ingram:

“In Adia & Clora Snatch Joy, rich mouthfuls of Geechee Gullah soul meet the ancient rhythms of the Ibibio as two women and two worlds collide.”

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.”