Drama A Fifth Word and New Perspectives co-production

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by NoViolet Bulawayo, in a new adaptation by Mufaro Makubika. Directed by Monique Touko Fri 9 – Sat 10 Jun 2023

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Dates

Fri 9 – Sat 10 Jun 2023

Price

£15.00

Running Time

Approx 110 minutes + interval.

Age Guidance

14+

Triggers and Advisories

The material explored in We Need New Names tackles challenging emotions and sensitive subject matter including references to racial discrimination, violence, child sexual assault, death by suicide and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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Paradise. Home of 10-year-old Darling and her friends: four children on the edge of innocence.

A playground overflowing with mischief and games where they imagine countries a luxurious life away from theirs in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.

But when Darling moves to Michigan, the western world she encounters as a teenager is far from the American utopia of her dreams…Based on the novel by the first Black African woman and first Zimbabwean to be Booker Prize-shortlisted, this defiant coming-of-age story is full of exuberance, humour and humanity.

Photograph © C.W. Griffin. Design © Suzanne Dean