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Author / Creator:	Bukilwa, Babirye, author.
Edition:	First edition
Imprint:	London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource (iii, 67 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	NHB modern plays NHB modern plays.
Subject:	Families, Black -- Drama. Drama.
Format:	E-Resource
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13478032

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ISBN:	9781839040214 9781788504034 9781784606558
Digital file characteristics:	text file HTML
Summary:	"babriye bukilwa's play ...cake is a psychological drama about identity, belonging and generational trauma, exploring queerness and the experience of racial prejudice and hostility. It was first performed at Theatre Peckham, London, on 13 July 2021. The play is set in a London flat, one hot, stifling evening in April 2005. Sissy, a dark-skinned Black woman, forty-two, dances to the music of Sade and then to Lenny Kravitz; she is unrestrained, beautiful, alive. Then sixteen-year-old Eshe arrives at the flat, wearing her school uniform and saying she was 'just passing'. Over the course of the evening, powerful emotions come to the surface as the two women are locked in a dance where freedom clashes with duty. Can the cycle of generational trauma ever be broken? Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them - and the climate around them - is hostile? The premiere production was directed by malakaï sargeant and designed by Debbie Duru. It was performed by Danielle Kassarate and Donna Banya"--About the play.
Standard no.:	10.5040/10.5040/9781784606558.00000002

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Summary:	'everything i do kills you. i don't know if i love you because i have to or because i can't help it... i don't know if both of those things are bad.' It's one of those hot April evenings that feel like summer, and the heat is stifling in Sissy's London flat as she dances, unrestrained, beautiful, alive... But when sixteen-year-old Eshe arrives, powerful emotions come to the surface - and the two women are locked in a dance where freedom clashes with duty. babriye bukilwa's play ...cake is a psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them - and the climate around them - is hostile? It was first performed at Theatre Peckham, London, in 2021, directed by the venue's Associate Director, malakaï sargeant.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (iii, 67 pages)
ISBN:	9781839040214 9781788504034 9781784606558