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T02005060871Producer 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). | |
| 15 Jun 23 to 15 Jul 23 | Arcola, Inner London :: V1422226940 listing details L1454587539 |
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.
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