Sunday, June 16 - In an ambitious staging of a play called A Season in the Congo. The play, translated from the French of Aimé Césaire, concerns the last months of the life of Patrice Lumumba, the pan-African hero who helped to liberate the Congo from Belgian rule in 1960, became its first democratically elected leader and who, after 12 short weeks in power was deposed, tortured and killed by his enemies including the CIA and, by some accounts, the British secret services. Click here to read article>>