Research Catalog

Title

...cake / babirye bukilwa.

Author

bukilwa, babirye

Publication

• London : Nick Hern Books, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

69 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

"babriye bukilwa's play ...cake is a psychological drama about identity, belonging and generational trauma, exploring queerness and the experience of racial prejudice and hostility. It was first performed at Theatre Peckham, London, on 13 July 2021. The play is set in a London flat, one hot, stifling evening in April 2005. Sissy, a dark-skinned Black woman, forty-two, dances to the music of Sade and then to Lenny Kravitz; she is unrestrained, beautiful, alive. Then sixteen-year-old Eshe arrives at the flat, wearing her school uniform and saying she was 'just passing'. Over the course of the evening, powerful emotions come to the surface as the two women are locked in a dance where freedom clashes with duty. Can the cycle of generational trauma ever be broken? Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them - and the climate around them - is hostile? The premiere production was directed by malakaï sargeant and designed by Debbie Duru. It was performed by Danielle Kassarate and Donna Banya"--About the play.

Series Statement

NHB modern plays

Uniform Title

NHB modern plays.

Subject

• Women, Black > Social conditions > Drama
• Gender identity > Drama
• Race > Drama
• Conflict of generations > Drama
• Families, Black > Drama
• Responsibility > Drama
• Liberty > Drama
• Families, Black

Genre/Form

• Domestic drama.
• Drama.

Call Number

Sc D 22-398

ISBN

• 9781839040214
• 1839040211

OCLC

1259546285

Author

bukilwa, babirye, author.

Title

...cake / babirye bukilwa.

Publisher

London : Nick Hern Books, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

NHB modern plays

NHB modern plays.

Local Subject

Black author.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781788504034

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-398