
Arts & Culture
…Cake: A New Psychological Drama Explores the Complexities of Queer Lives
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
|
13 July 2021
Theatre Peckham | £10 - £18
221 Havil Street,
London SE5 7SB
How do queer, Black femmes achieve legitimacy when their soil is hostile?
What happens to their roots?
Who deserves solace on a sinking island where performativity is currency?
…cake, a psychological drama which unapologetically queers the existing complexities of family, roots and belonging; where power and duty dance in equal measure.
Written by Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 finalist, actor and poet babirye bukilwa, …cake forms part of a trilogy of plays and is a prequel to bukilwa’s acclaimed …blackbird hour (also shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2019 and Alfred Fagon Award 2020). A first for the venue, this piece of new writing will be produced in-house, with the drama premiering as a fully staged production across 4 weeks from the 13 July until 7 August 2021.
bukilwa, who completed the play during the pandemic, says they wanted to write a story through a Black queer femme lens that interrogates the meaning and function of love and self-worth in an exploitative climate of working-class London in the noughties. At its heart, the play examines performativity in relationships and how generational trauma can be inherited.
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Performance Times
Tues, Wed, Fri – 7.30pm
Thurs – 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Sat – 2.30pm & 7pm
“babirye’s writing is innovative and pushes the boundaries of form. Providing a safe space and a platform to thrive stays true to the mission of Theatre Peckham. This is a vital and bold new play which honours intersectionality and re-centres voices which will connect not only with our local community but with audiences London-wide.” – Suzann McLean
Meet the Cast
Danielle Kassarate – Sissy
Donna Banya – Eshe
Meet the Creatives
- Sarudzayi Marufu – Producer
- Malakaï Sargeant – Director
- Debbie Duru – Set and Costume Designer
- babirye bukilwa – Writer
- Xana – Sound Designer
- Eleanor Manners – Vocal Coach
- Jocelyn Yeboah-Newton – Facilitator
- Phyllys Egharevba – Stage Manager
- Gerrard Martin – Movement Director
Photo of babirye bukilwa by Jennie Scott