About the Show/Event
Information for The Great Privation: How to Flip Ten Cents into a Dollar at Theatre503, Inner London (Play). The Great Privation is about Grave Robbing: Grave Robbing during the early 1800's. Grave Robbing during the Cholera outbreak. Grave Robbing in Pennsylvania. Robbing of Black bodies for medical research. Black bodies that were commodified even after death. Black bodies that never got their rest. In early 1800's Pennsylvania, a mother and daughter keep vigil at a grave. Today, at a Summer Camp on the same grounds, a new, yet not entirely different mother and daughter navigate a new, yet not entirely different landscape. Alongside them, two distinct male figures move in and out of both sets of lives, threatening to unearth dark truths - or to help create them. As timelines collide and secrets and lives become buried and revealed, a reckoning comes calling to them all: the roots to our ancestors are not as long as we may think.
Approximate runtime 1 hour 35 minutes (including any interval).
Age Advisory: 14+ contains themes that some audience members may find distressing
Cast/Performers
Ella Dacres (Charity / Modern-Day Charity),
Sydney Sainte (Mother / Modern-Day Mother),
Romeo Mika (Cuffee / Modern-Day Cuffee),
Jack Gouldbourne (John / Modern-Day John)
Creatives/Company
Author:
Nia Akilah RobinsonPresented by:
Theatre503Director(s):
Kalungi Ssebandeke,
Yemurai Zvaraya (movement),
Fran Cattaneo (casting),
Lydia Doyle (casting assistant)
Producer(s):
Zena Collins (executive producer),
Clarisse Makundul Productions (associate producer)
Design:
Ruth BadilaCostume:
Ruth BadilaLighting:
Chuma EmemboluSound:
Jose Guillermo PuelloOther(s):
Aundrea Fudge (voicie and dialect coach),
Adam Jefferys (production manager)
Stage Manager:
Shereen Hamilton