Statement of Regret - Kwame Kwei-Armah

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Auteur(s) : Kwame Kwei-Armah

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/11/2007

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 96

Expédition : 68

Dimensions : 19.3 x 12.7 x 0.8

ISBN : 1408103915

Résumé :

Kwaku Mackenzie, founder of a Black policy think tank, hits the bottle after his father's death. As media interest in the once dynamic Institute fades, his team grows fractious and then, disastrously, he favours a young Oxford scholar over his own devastated son. When, in a vain attempt to regain influence, he publicly champions division within the Black community, the consequences are shattering.

Kwame Kwei-Armah's third play for the National Theatre opens in November 2007 and takes a punchy, provocative look at the Black British experience and the need, or not, for solidarity.

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Biographie:

Kwame Kwei-Armah is British actor, playwright, director, singer and broadcaster. In 2018 he was made Artistic Director of the Young Vic Theatre, where he has directed Twelfth Night and Tree.

From 2011 to 2018 he was the Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage where his directing credits include: Jazz, Marley, One Night in Miami, Amadeus, and Dance of the Holy Ghosts.

As a playwright his credits include Tree (Manchester International Festival, Young Vic), One Love (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Beneatha's Place (Baltimore Center Stage) Elmina's Kitchen, Fix Up, Statement of Regret (National Theatre) Let There Be Love and Seize the Day (Tricycle Theatre).

Kwame was an Associate Director of the Donmar Warehouse and has served on the boards of the National Theatre, Tricycle Theatre, and Theatre Communications Group. He is Chair of the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, was Chancellor of the University of the Arts London from 2010 to 2015, and in 2012 was awarded an OBE for Services to Drama.

Sommaire:

Kwame Kwei-Armah won the Peggy Ramsay award for his first play, Bitter Herb (1998), which was subsequently put on by The Bristol Old Vic, where he also became writer-in-residence. In 2003 The National Theatre produced the critically acclaimed Elmina's Kitchen for which in 2004 he won The Evening Standard and Charles Wintor Awards for Most Promising Playwright, and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier award for Best New Play 2003. The National Theatre commissioned and produced a second play, Fix Up, in 2005.