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BurntOut Theatre: Muscovado at Holy Trinity Church

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Time 20:30
Date 01/10/14
Price £10
  • Produced by BurntOut Theatre
  • Price £10, £8 Concessions (Students, Over 60s, in receipt of disability benefits)
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An original play about the British involvement in the slave trade, performed at the church where William Wilberforce began his abolition campaign.

Written by Matilda Ibini

Directed by Clemmie Reynolds

Original Music by James Reynolds

Barbados, 1808. Enter Miss Kitty’s parlour on the Fairbranch Plantation of St Lucy; house slaves Nanny G and Asa are preparing for the arrival of an important guest from England; Willa a young slave girl is desperate to be in the family portrait; Parson Lucy is holding religious tuition over tea and sugar biscuits; Field slave Elsie wants to remember how to dream again.

Set between the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and the abolition of slavery, ‘Muscovado’ is about the tragedy of knowing freedom but never experiencing it; of finding beauty in the darkest shadows.

1,2,3,6,7,8,9,10 October, 19:30

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