Kehinde Bankole Joins the Cast of “Anna Hibiscus’ Song” as Auntie Jolie & Storyteller
Award-winning actress and producer Kehinde Bankole is bringing her talent and fervour for African reports to the UK tour of “Anna Hibiscus’ Song.” The play, essentially essentially based on the most new children’s e book, follows a younger lady’s trudge of self-discovery in Africa.
This is the yarn of a younger lady named Anna Hibiscus. Anna lives in unparalleled Africa. Ibadan, Nigeria to be exact.
Anna Hibiscus is so stuffed with happiness that she feels look after she may perchance well perchance float away. And the extra she talks to her mom and father and grandfather and grandmother and aunties and cousins about it, the extra her happiness grows! There’s simplest one component to attain…Issue!
Bankole, known for her roles in movies look after “Sista“, “Adire“, “Blood Sisters” and “Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti,” will play Auntie Jolie and Storyteller in the manufacturing. It’s miles a new trudge for the actress who has lent her verbalize in Disney’s “Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire.”
“I’m continuously attempting for new adventures and particularly revel in sharing the vibrant essence of African reports,” Kehinde talked about. “I’m so awaiting being segment of this beautiful adaptation of a unbelievable yarn which is in a position to capture the imagination of audiences younger and venerable.”
The AMVCA 2024 winner joins the distinctive solid from the 2023 manufacturing, including Malick Bojang, Althea Burey, Dorthea Darby, Julius Obende, and Saskia Rose. The play, adapted and directed by Mojisola Kareem, is a colourful and interactive abilities that blends tune, dance, puppetry, and mature African storytelling.
The UK tour kicks off at Bristol Veteran Vic on August 28 and runs via October 13, making stops in nine cities. The manufacturing is honest for children extinct 3 and up and promises to recede audiences beaming.
