Alfred is a "quintessentially grumpy" elderly man, originally from the West Indies who is attended to intermittently by his thirty-year-old daughter Gemma, who struggles to manage the pressures brought about by Alfred’s aging as well as the struggles of trying to make ends meet in London. When Alfred’s new Polish home-helper, Maria, starts work in the house, Alfred finds a new role in life, and a new chance to make connections before it is too late.
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Strong scene between black woman and Polish woman
2008, Tricycle Theatre, London, England
2009
Methuen Drama
9781408115602
Published in Plays:1 by Kwame Kwei-Armah
Published in Plays:1 by Kwame Kwei-Armah
Realistic
Ronnie is fresh off the plane from Israel, looking to move back into his old room in Dave's flat and pick up where he left off. But life has moved on. And when his younger sister Cass and her new relationship with Dave become the target of Ronnie's interference, her belief that blood is thicker than water starts to crack under the strain.
Realistic
Rachel and Chaim are Orthodox Jews living in Toronto. They have requested an arranged marriage and today is their wedding day. The Yichud Room is the place where the bride and groom go to be alone immediately following the wedding ceremony. In the case of Rachel and Chaim, who have only had a handful of chaperoned dates, this is the first time they have ever been alone together. In another part of the synagogue, tensions rise between the groom's older brothers, Ephraim and Menachem, rival Torah scholars who haven't seen each other in four years. Meanwhile, the bride's parents, Mordechai and Malka, are secretly planning to divorce after the wedding. YICHUD (Seclusion) directly confronts the tensions that exist in the Orthodox Jewish world between tradition and modernity, powerfully dramatizing issues of love, marriage, respect, sex, honour, and duty.
