Getting the wedding right is more important than getting there on time. They finished us!! Kei!
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 [...]
Woke up this morning
Wondering about you and your place in life
I thought about your heart
And felt your pain
The one you will feel when words come at you
At a speed so fast, hit you unawares
And leave you reeling for you did not see them coming
Words, the kind that comes off a boxer’s gloves and jibes at [...]
The figures sound scary. The question is, what should be done to stop it getting higher and of course, in what ways can the government continue helping those already infected?
I was thinking about you on my way home
I have no idea why but I truly wanted to give you a hug
And whisper in your ears that you are not flawed
You are you and I’m me, and while we work daily
To become better people
It does not mean I’m better than you or that you are [...]
I hate waiting
I hate waiting on people
I hate waiting on anyone to make-up their mind
I hate the waiting time it takes to hear the outcome of a query
I hate waiting to hear about the outcome of an interview
I hate that my heart beats in ways I cannot control when I have to wait
I hate waiting [...]
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 [...]
Set in the 80s and 90s, in Bulawayo, the story starts with the house next door burning down in a blaze of fire which results in the death of Mrs McKenzie. Ian McKenzie, her stepson is held responsible and imprisoned but released after two years. This is where the fascination begins and Lindiwe Bishop is [...]
I have struggled as to what the title of this post should be. I started with fighting for the souls of our Black men but I figured the fight for their souls is about getting them off the streets and for them to make something of themselves. Hence, I settled on fighting for the attention [...]
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