Wind/Rush Generation(s) and A Marxist Heaven

27th February 2020 - 29th February 2020

Price: £10.00

Concession: £8.00

Boomsatsuma's Professional Acting Diploma course presents a double bill performance of Mojisola Adebayo's Wind/Rush Generation(s) and Hattie Naylor's A Marxist in Heaven, as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival.

Suitable for all ages 12+

Wind/Rush Generation(s) 
by Mojisola Adebayo

Directed by Sam Bridges

This is a play about the British Isles, its past and its present. Set in a senior common room, in a prominent university, a group of 1st year undergraduates are troubled, not by the weight of their workload, but by a ‘noisy’ ghost. So they do what any group self-respecting and intelligent university students would do in such a situation – they get out the Ouija Board to confront their spiritual irritant and lay them to rest – only to be confronted by the full weight of Britain’s colonial past – in all its gory glory. 

However, if you think you know about British history, Empire, slavery, economics, racism and humanity, then this play might get you to think again. As the planch on the Ouija Board skates from letter to letter at an ever-increasing breakneck speed, the students are catapulted through space and time, witnessing the injustices, incongruities and inhumanity of the past.

A Marxist in Heaven. 
by Hattie Naylor
Directed by Hanna Lune 

The Marxist in Heaven is a play that does exactly what its title page says it’s going to do. The eponymous protagonist ‘wakes up’ in paradise and once they get over the shock of this fundamental contradiction of everything they believe in…..they get straight back to work….and continue their lifelong struggle for equality and fairness for all….even in death.

Funny, playful, provocative, pertinent and jam-packed with discourse, disputes, deities and disco dancing by the bucketful, this upbeat buoyant allegory shines its holy light on globalization and asks the salient questions – who are we and what are we doing to ourselves?.....and what conditioner do you use on your hair?

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