{"id":1269400,"date":"2022-12-23T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/naa-ashorkor-globe-productions-and-spanish-embassy-thrill-tamale-with-5-hours-with-mario\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:05:45","slug":"naa-ashorkor-globe-productions-and-spanish-embassy-thrill-tamale-with-5-hours-with-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/naa-ashorkor-globe-productions-and-spanish-embassy-thrill-tamale-with-5-hours-with-mario\/","title":{"rendered":"Naa Ashorkor, Globe Productions and Spanish Embassy thrill Tamale with \u20185 Hours with Mario\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After receiving rave reviews from the first two-day showing in Accra, Ghanaian playwright, Latif Abubakar took his adaptation of the popular Spanish novel \u20185 Hours with Mario\u2019 to the Northern regional capital, Tamale.<\/p>\n

The playwright, partnered by the Spanish Embassy, held patrons to the Accra play at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on September 3 and 4, spellbound with his afro-centric take of the novel, and Tamale was no different.<\/p>\n

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Critically acclaimed as one of the best and most popular Spanish novels, Miguel Delibes\u2019 \u20185 Hours with Mario\u2019 tells the story of Dzidzor (played by Naa Ashorkor), who, after the death of her husband, sheds light on their personalities and conflicts throughout their turbulent marriage.<\/p>\n

The play, being adapted into a Ghanaian and Afrocentric stage play for the first time, is set in the couple\u2019s living room where the dead man had been laid for his wake-keeping.<\/p>\n

But from Dzidzor\u2019s rantings \u2014 pouring her heart out in a long monologue \u2014 she did not enjoy her 20-year marriage to one bit.<\/p>\n

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Not new to stage plays, Naa Ashorkor, from reviews, once again nailed her acting. She kept the packed audience at the Red Clay Studio in Tamale on December 17 alive and thrilled throughout the play.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonologues are difficult and a true test for both playwright and the actor. 5 hours with Mario by Latif Abubakar is a spectacular play and technically a great achievement in my opinion. It was engaging, funny, thoughtfully written with hints of music and popular references, and had all the makings of great play,\u201d Jason Amoo said on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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He added, \u201cI\u2019ve always been a fan of Naa Ashorkor but she blew my mind with this one. Delivery was flawless, and her ability to switch between emotions and scenarios and deliver her lines so naturally was so beautiful to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naa Ashorkor, after putting up the splendid performance, also said, \u201cthe audience was amazing; the ambiance was simply divine, and the play was \u2026well\u2026God did it \u2014 again. I\u2019m happy!\u201d<\/p>\n

Those who have so far missed out on the \u20185 Hours with Mario\u2019 fun will get another opportunity to see Naa Ashorkor do what she does best on the Dodi Princess on January 7 and 8, 2023.<\/p>\n

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After receiving rave reviews from the first two-day showing in Accra, Ghanaian playwright, Latif Abubakar took his adaptation of the popular Spanish novel \u20185 Hours with Mario\u2019 to the Northern regional capital, Tamale. The playwright, partnered by the Spanish Embassy, held patrons to the Accra play at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on September […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1269401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6646,8846,13350,327,14747,6648,7205,1977,2821,1806],"class_list":["post-1269400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ashorkor","tag-embassy","tag-globe","tag-hours","tag-mario","tag-naa","tag-spanish","tag-tamale","tag-thrill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}