SCENE 3
REVELATIONS
Saturday 11:30pm
(Living room, ADE and REMI have just come back to the house from WOLE and DUPE’S naming ceremony. MAMA and SHOLA are asleep upstairs)
REMI: I’m sure they got tired waiting up.
ADE: Shola loves his beauty sleep, always the first to go to bed when we were kids.
(Goes to [...]
SCENE 1
THE ARRIVAL
Thursday 3pm
(A three bedroom Maisonette in Thamesmead South East London, the living room is furnished with two settees, a television stand with a VCR and DVD player. A raffia mat hangs on the left side of the living room with two canvas paintings of ADE and REMI’S wedding on the right. Enters [...]
When was the last time you went to the theatre and got a full course meal, served up with words and nothing but words?
“I come from a long line of trouble makers.” If there is a line I know I will not forget in a long time, it is these very words spoken by Ellams, [...]
South Africa has given the world its fair share of great theatre talents and productions. From Athol Fugard with Sizwe Banzi Is Dead to Barney Simon with Born In The RSA. Lara Foot Newton, playwright and director has also found her voice and place on the world stage among her contemporaries. I interviewed [...]
ACT 1
SCENE 1
We can hear the sounds and pandemonium of a car accident, police sirens, ambulances and paramedics working on someone who is unconscious. The voice of a man gives the paramedics, the name of the accident victim. She is his wife, tells them her age and that she has a medical condition. She is [...]
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