Overview
Character Name
Oba
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Time & Place
Late August, San Pere, Louisiana
Analysis
Oba is Marcus’s mother. We hear about her in In the Red and Brown Water, but we don’t meet her until this play. She had Marcus with Elegba, who has recently died in prison. She is very overprotective mother, and Marcus thinks she babies him. As Marcus comes of age in
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