WE NEED NEW NAMES

30 MAY – 3 JUN THE WESTON STUDIO

Paradise. Home of 10-year-old Darling and her friends: four children on the edge of innocence. A playground overflowing with mischief and games where they imagine countries a luxurious life away from theirs in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. But when Darling moves to Michigan, the Western world she encounters as a teenager is far from the American utopia of her dreams…

Based on the novel by the first Black African woman and first Zimbabwean to be Booker Prize-shortlisted, this defiant coming-ofage story is full of exuberance, humour and humanity.

A FIFTH WORD AND NEW PERSPECTIVES CO-PRODUCTION

BY NOVIOLET BULAWAYO, IN A NEW ADAPTATION BY MUFARO MAKUBIKA

DIRECTED BY MONIQUE TOUKO

CAttS

16 – 20 MAY THE WESTON STUDIO

From ‘acclaimed clown’ (To Do List London) and emerging idiot Frankie Thompson, an anarchic one-woman adaptation of Cats (the musical). But not about cats, not about musicals, not about Cats the musical.

CAttS is a lip-sync ballet through the distractions and obsessions that help us cope with an increasingly dystopian reality. Because after all, wouldn’t we rather think about cats?

AAAA

The Guardian