Word: imafidon
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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While concerned with issues of the past and present, “The Colored Museum” also demonstrated the future promise of its participants. First-time producers Faith O. Imafidon ’07 and Nicklette N. Izuegbu ’08 combined their talents well under the leadership of more experienced director Kia D. Alexander ’08. What’s more, many of the play’s actors and actresses are not only new to theater, they played more than one role—a technique that demonstrated their refreshing originality and versatility...
Opening to the purposefully discordant music played by cellist Sarah K. Howard ’07, the first play features four actors, Kris J. Bartkus ’08, Faith O. Imafidon ’08, Phil Redko, and C. Calla Videt ’08. Each gives a noteworthy performance, easily and impressively filling a range of roles, each playing a universally cold and cruelly detached doctor and a number of believable characters afflicted by disorders. They struggle with afflictions ranging from short-term memory loss and obsessive-compulsive disorder to Tourette’s syndrome and an inability...
Overall, their deeply emotional performances came to a fore two successive scenes—the first and second featuring Imafidon and Redko, respectively. In these particular scenes, Imafidon plays a patient who cannot move without exerting a great deal of effort, while Redko is afflicted by Tourette’s syndrom. Talking directly to the audience, Imafidon anguishes that “Everyday is a mental marathon,” and Redko laments that since there is no place in the world from him, he must create...
Similarly enjoyable to watch was the characters’ dynamic interplay with Imafidon, who, as the neophyte woman from Hell, sympathizes with the stick and Redko, as the hardened Hell worker...