Goddess

Goddess is happening on Sunday,June 18,2023 at 02:00PM EDT at Sidney Harman Hall with tickets starting at $50.

From award-winning playwright Jocelyn Bioh ("Merry Wives, School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play"), composer Michael Thurber ("Merry Wives"), and director/conceiver Saheem Ali ("Merry Wives, Nollywood Dreams") comes an exuberant new musical brimming with magical secrets. Following its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Goddess tells the story of a mysterious singer who arrives at Moto Moto, a steamy Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya. She casts an entrancing presence on everyone at the club, including a young man who has returned home from America. Will the big plans for his life—stepping into a political legacy and marrying his fiancée—be upended? Inspired by the myth of Marimba, who created beautiful songs from her heartbreak, "Goddess" is a rousing tale of romance, the supernatural, and the quest of stepping into one’s true identity.