cooking oil

Synopsis:

The story follows a teenage girl, Maria, who faces an untimely death when she finds herself selling cooking oil in the territory of a prominent politician, Silver Bibala. The cooking oil is aid intended for a starving village. The play bears stunning witness to the landscape of dependence and instability perpetuated by many foreign aid systems and it invites us to interrogate international (in)dependence and how societies gaze at a suffering “other.”