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We Need New Names

We Need New Names

Sat 27 May
A Fifth Word and New Perspectives co-production

                                                                                                                                        

We Need New Names

by NoViolet Bulawayo, in a new adaptation by Mufaro Makubika
directed by Monique Touko

 

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.

Suitable for 14+ years

 

Trailer:

  • Time: 12.00am
  • Running time: TBC

  • Content warning: 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.

    Suitable for 14+ years

"Gripping...a great piece of theatrical storytelling"
The Times on The Fishermen (New Perspectives)
“Compassionate, emotionally astute”
The Stage on LAVA (Fifth Word)
“...often heart-breaking, but also pulsing with colour and energy”
The Times on the novel We Need New Names