Inua Ellams’ new play, “The Half-God of Rainfall” fuses Greek mythology and Yoruba folklore to tell a “Me Too” type of story. Ellams tells The World’s host Marco Werman that the work asks the audience to reimagine the gendered violence that permeates Greek mythology.
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