The second performance in Volcano's Shape of Things to Come series is Rituals of the Molikilikili by Eric Ngalle Charles.THE RITUALS OF THE MOLIKILIKILI (Stick Insect). This brand new short play is about the power of storytelling to overcome trauma. It weaves between languages, folktales, and Bantu oral traditions.
ERIC NGALLE CHARLES is a Cameroonian writer, poet, playwright, and human rights activist based in Wales. A PhD researcher at King’s College London, he was awarded a Creative Wales Award Fellowship in 2017 for his work on migration, trauma, and memory. Parthian Books published his autobiography I, Eric Ngalle: One Man’s Journey Crossing Continents from Africa to Europe (2019). He recounts his journey to Europe, spending several years in Russia and elsewhere seeking refuge. He was selected as one of Jackie Kay’s best British BAME writers with a unique theatrical voice. He sits on boards at Aberystwyth Arts Centre and edited Hiraeth Erzolirzoli: A Wales-Cameroon Anthology (2018). The 3 Molas (2020) is an anthology about Cameroon and Wales. His poetry Collection Homelands (Seren Books 2022) was published in April.
The show opens with a Thursday matinee and continues until Saturday.