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Lupita Nyong'o will make her New York Stage debut in Public Theater's Off-Broadway production of "Eclipsed". Written by "The Walking Dead" star Danai Gurira, the play is set during the Liberian Civil War. Lupita will play "The Girl", who disrupts the fragile community of vulnerable women when she becomes one of the wives of a rebel officer.

Public's artistic director, Oskar Eustis, says in a statement, "Danai Gurira has written a brilliant play, ripped from the headlines, that looks at the terrible conflicts in post-colonial Africa with an eye that is both incisive and deeply compassionate. A feminist reading of the Liberian Civil War, a war that was ended by women, 'Eclipsed' is both heart-breaking and profoundly life-affirming. We are delighted to welcome the extraordinary Lupita Nyong'o to the Public in this vitally important play."

According to the press release, "Eclipse" reveals "distinct women who must discover their own means of survival in this deeply felt portrait of women finding and testing their own strength in a hostile world of horrors not of their own making."

Helmed by South African-born director Liesl Tommy, "Eclipsed" begins previews on September 29 and officially opens from October 14 to November 8.