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 [...]
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When Torn first premiered at the Arcola theatre, it sold out in the first two weeks. Back with a new cast and creative team, Torn explores the African Caribbean divide. Femi Oguns explains why its refreshing theatre keeps exploring sensitive subject matters of this nature.
Torn is a modern day version of Romeo and Juliet, told [...]







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