Samuel Takes a Break : in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours Paperback / softback
by Rhianna Ilube
Part of the NHB Modern Plays series
Paperback / softback
Description
'Every one of us will be here for a different particular reason.
I am here because I am passionate about history.'It is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America.
We are at a slave castle in Ghana. Samuel is our tour guide. It's his job to give tourists a really, really authentic experience of the castle's dark history, and to do it all with a smile.
Thank you, Samuel!The tourists are Samuel's guests, and they're on a journey of self-discovery.
But they're here, standing on soil, blood and bones, asking for a selfie.
They want to buy trinkets from the gift shop. Samuel would never want to hurt the tourists. And they would never want to hurt him. Rhianna Ilube's Samuel Takes a Break… in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours is a genre-blending play about colonialism, identity and the attempt to preserve the past.
It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Playwriting and the Verity Bargate Award, and was a finalist for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
It premiered at The Yard Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Nick Hern Books
- Publication Date:15/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781839043185
Information
-
Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Nick Hern Books
- Publication Date:15/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781839043185
