‘Clarissa’ Review: Sophie Okonedo Illuminates a Quietly Dazzling Nigerian Reinterpretation of “Mrs Dalloway”

‘Clarissa’ Review: Sophie Okonedo Illuminates a Quietly Dazzling Nigerian Reinterpretation of “Mrs Dalloway”

Virginia Woolf’s interior epic “Mrs Dalloway” survives — and thrives — following a surprisingly successful transplantation from London to Lagos in brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri’s vivid and velvety “Clarissa,” which places a superb Sophie Okonedo, radiant with melancholy, at the heart of its remarkably well-cast ensemble. Expanding in ambition and feeling from their promising […]

By Jessica Kiang