Elisabeth Efua Sutherland's performs ANANSI’S WIFE//AKUA’S DAUGHTER

Elisabeth Efua Sutherland performance piece explores issues of feminism and identity, narrative and history, by crafting the origin story of ‘Aso', the wife of the famous Akan trickster 'Anansi'. A piece of modern myth-making, AW//AD is an experiment in merging traditional storytelling, sound, movement and visual elements into a multimedia landscape. In the performance, a solo storyteller rewrites the figure of 'Aso' as the central figure of the 'Anansi' folktales. AW//AD looks at performance and storytelling as means of psychotherapy: a way to fill the lacunae in terms of the experience of a female Ghanaian creator figure; and as a way to craft even newer ways of seeing and reacting to the world.