It's 1982. London is restless, gripped by spiralling unemployment and inner city riots. Ska beats dominate the airwaves and in a flat in Deptford, two mixed-race brothers are unexpectedly reunited. When Chima returns home, he finds that his sixteen-year-old brother Onochie has become a skinhead who no longer thinks of himself as black. Chima has been blamed for the death of a white girl and the hostile world outside won't rest until it delivers its rough justice. But will Onochie side with the community he's tried so hard to belong to, or stand by the brother he barely knows?
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2013, Talwa/ Soho Theatre/ The Albany, London
2013
Nick Hern Books
9781848423251
Plays with music
"Mella, the king's daughter, lives in long-ago Zimbabwe. The king is sick, and the land is dying. Two warriors go on a quest to bring the Serpent Healer, but is is Mella who must call upon her reserves of strength, and the words of the magical N'anga and Python in order to save her father and the land." - from the publisher
Realistic
"A young woman falls in love for the first time, opening up a well of feeling about her Blackness, her identity, her childhood, sexuality, and womanhood in a poetic performance that uses memory and projections to ask the question: How can we be whole when a part of us is missing?" - From a FB post from the black theature workshop in Montreal
