Performance

Venue	Arcola
	Also: Arcola Tent (2 Ashwin Street)
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	15th June 2023
Opened	19th June 2023
To	15th July 2023
When	Mon-Sat 19:30. Sat Mat 16:00
Prices	From £12.00. To £30.00.
Arcola (V1422226940)
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Date of change: 19 Apr 23 - T02005060871

Possession

Work:: Possession (S1299845592)

Kasambayi, recently arrived in the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo, starts her contractions on the number 38 bus at Clapton Ponds, and gives the final push at Victoria. She names her daughter Hope - hope for their new life, hope for their future. Once Hope is fully grown, her path crosses with Alice, a foreign correspondent with a particular interest in Cobalt - the latest blood mineral being mined in the DRC. But will their budding friendship threaten the safety that Kasambayi has so carefully built for them in London? Meanwhile Alice Seeley-Harris, a Victorian Missionary's wife in King Leopold's Congo has a horrible sense that history is repeating itself. Possession is a tale about desire. About owning and being owned. About colonising and being colonised. And ultimately about the power of the spirit to escape oppression.

Author

Sasha Hails

Production:: (T02005060871)

Producer	Arcola Theatre
Producer	Oscar Pearce
Director	Oscar Pearce
Design	Sarah Beaton
Lighting	Joseph Ed Thomas
Design	Leo Flint (video)
Costume	Alexandra Kharibian
Sound	Esther Kehinde Ajayi
Other	Josephine Tremmeling (production manager)
Director	Tian Brown-Sampson (movement)
Performer	Diany Bandza (Hope Mabele)
Performer	Sarah Amankwah (Kasambayi Mabele)
Performer	Dorothea Myer-Bennett (Alice Young / Alice Seeley Harris)
Performer	Milo Twomey (John Dent / John Harris)

Listing:: L1454587539

Part of Grimeborn Opera Festival 2023. Studio 1

Production details

Part of Grimeborn Opera Festival 2023. Studio 1

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