After Independence (Modern Plays) - Softcover

May Sumbwanyambe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350007978 ISBN 13: 9781350007970

Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016

Synopsis

Let us not dwell on the past . . . Im an old man Charles. Old enough to know the past is only good for doing one thing Destroying the future. Africa is changing. Country by country, step by step. But for Guy and Kathleen, life on their ranch goes on, just as it has since their ancestors first claimed this land. Until a man from the new government arrives with a smile and a purchase order but theres more than just land at stake. Charles will do whatever it takes to restore the farm to the native population. A game of cat and mouse, claim and counter-claim, begins, with the heritage of an entire nation to play for. As truths are revealed and moralities questioned, are things ever more than simply black and white? Inspired by real events in Zimbabwe, May Sumbwanyambes play is an unflinching examination of land ownership, dispossession and justice in a post-colonial world.

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About the Author:

May Sumbwanyambe is an award-winning playwright who is currently writing new stage plays, radio plays, operas and musicals on commission to The National Theatre of Scotland, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Scottish Opera and the BBC. In 2015 he was the winner of the BBC PAFs £10k Legacy Award and in 2013 he was the inaugural Papatango Resident Playwright and winner of the £10k BBC Performing Arts Fellowship. Other award recognition includes being shortlisted for the Channel 4/Oran Mor Comedy Drama Award (2012), the Papatango New Writing Prize (2012), the Alfred Fagon Award (2011, 2012, 2015), the BBCS Alfred Bradley Award (2011) and OffWestEnds Adopt a Playwright Award (2010 and 2009). He also reached the final round of Soho Theatres Verity Bargate Award (2011) and won the BBCs inaugural Scriptroom competition (2012). In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Old Vic 12 award and named a finalist for the Perfect Pitch £12k musical award. Outside of dramatic writing, he has worked extensively as a script reader and as a freelance tutor (for children and adults) in new writing for performance. He was recently appointed as a trustee on the board of Arts Council Englands national portfolio organization, The Writing Squad.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1350007978
• ISBN 13: 9781350007970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80