Post by pattiaudrabernadette on Apr 19, 2023 13:35:12 GMT
This looks like it could be great. Roy Williams, Matthew Xia and Mojisola Adebayo coming together for this immersive play
Show on London bus to mark 30 years since murder of Stephen Lawrence
A new production marking 30 years since the murder of Stephen Lawrence, conceived by Matthew Xia, Roy Williams and Mojisola Adebayo, is to be presented at Greenwich and Docklands International Festival.
Called The Architect, the production "invites audiences to board a London bus and take a life-affirming theatrical journey infused with the experiences of Black Londoners across the three decades since the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993".
It is commissioned by GDIF, co-produced by Actors Touring Company and presented in support of the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation.
The project has been created with artists including Bola Agbaje, Dexter Flanders, Vanessa Macauley and XANA.
Xia, who is artistic director of Actors Touring Company, said: “Thirty years ago, the UK was rocked to its core by the unprovoked racist murder of South London teenager Stephen Lawrence. The ensuing decades became a fight for justice and revealed the extent of institutional racism across the nation.
"I have gathered a collective of the most brilliant Black theatre artists to respond to this commemorative moment, and as is often the way with such painful events and memories, we want to try to move through the trauma, and the profound loss towards something uplifting and hopeful. We come together in our collective power to imagine an alternative city, designed and inhabited by The Architect.”
www.thestage.co.uk/news/show-on-london-bus-to-mark-30-years-since-murder-of-stephen-lawrence
A new production marking 30 years since the murder of Stephen Lawrence, conceived by Matthew Xia, Roy Williams and Mojisola Adebayo, is to be presented at Greenwich and Docklands International Festival.
Called The Architect, the production "invites audiences to board a London bus and take a life-affirming theatrical journey infused with the experiences of Black Londoners across the three decades since the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993".
It is commissioned by GDIF, co-produced by Actors Touring Company and presented in support of the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation.
The project has been created with artists including Bola Agbaje, Dexter Flanders, Vanessa Macauley and XANA.
Xia, who is artistic director of Actors Touring Company, said: “Thirty years ago, the UK was rocked to its core by the unprovoked racist murder of South London teenager Stephen Lawrence. The ensuing decades became a fight for justice and revealed the extent of institutional racism across the nation.
"I have gathered a collective of the most brilliant Black theatre artists to respond to this commemorative moment, and as is often the way with such painful events and memories, we want to try to move through the trauma, and the profound loss towards something uplifting and hopeful. We come together in our collective power to imagine an alternative city, designed and inhabited by The Architect.”
www.thestage.co.uk/news/show-on-london-bus-to-mark-30-years-since-murder-of-stephen-lawrence