Toto Kisaku’s one-man play, Requiem for an Electric Chair, tells the harrowing true story of his persecution, imprisonment, and near execution in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his musical comedies exposing child exploitation and government complicity put him on death row.
Opening with his interview with a U.S. immigration officer, the play takes audiences from his arrest and incarceration – using mannequins to represent cellmates whose faces he could not make out in the dark – to his escape in 2015 and eventual asylum in the United States in 2018. Written and performed by Kisaku, the piece explores the …
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