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Strange Fruit archiveI go half way round the world and back thinking I'd made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies. Alvin and Errol can't picture much of a future for themselves. They're young, Black and living in England in the 1980s, with an entire country and political system set against them. Instead they focus firmly on their past - the sunny Caribbean and heroic father they left behind when their mother brought them to England twenty years ago. But when Alvin returns home from his grandfather's funeral a new version of their past emerges and the two brothers are caught in a desperate struggle to unearth the truth about their existence. Powerful and compelling, Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) is the story of a family caught between two cultures, and the uncrossable no man's land that can come between parents and their children.

Cast/Performers

Jonathan Ajayi (Errol), Rakie Ayola (Mother / Vivian), Debra Michaels (Vernice), Tilly Steele (Shelley), Tok Stephens (Alvin)

Creatives/Company

Author: Caryl Phillips
Producer: Bush Theatre
Director: Nancy Medina
Stage Manager(s): Rike Berg, Hanne Schulpe (assistant)
Lighting: Sally Ferguson
Design: Max Johns
Costume: Rianna Azoro
Sound: Xana

Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit (Play) production archive for QTIX code T265942379. Details of all Strange Fruit archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1106839378

Archive Listings

12 Jun 19
  to
27 Jul 19
Bush Theatre
Inner London, Greater London
Performance Details => Venue archive

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