Enough of Him (Modern Plays)

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Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Enough of Him received the award for Best New Play at the 2023 UK Theatre Awards as well as both Best Production and Best New Play at the 2023 Critic’s Award for Theatre in Scotland.

The National Theatre of Scotland makes its debut at Pitlochry Festival Theatre with a highly appropriate piece of historical drama. Lady Wedderburn strongly disapproves not only of their love affair but also of the close bond that has developed between Knight and her husband. Through the sharing of important stories, that tell us about ourselves, we explore our shared humanity. There’s a reason that upon its second usage, the original piece colours have their players deliberately switched. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.It is an excellent, harrowing and ultimately uplifting drama about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and the struggle against it.

It can be used and shared in different media channels to convey, narrate, and comment on your press releases, posts, or information, provided that the content is unmodified. This project will explore small, portable items linked to the First World War - otherwise referred to as ephemera - to gain a clearer understanding of the past. The theatre will also present digital works, including Gillian Katungi's short film Metamorphosis: Feeling My Way (to Freedom), and Hope Dickson Leach and Vlad Butucea's new film adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Following an initial defeat in a lower court, Knight won his appeal at the Sheriff Court in Perth, which established that slavery had no basis in Scots law.As relationships strain and authority is challenged, the fallout threatens all of their futures, and Joseph’s long dormant ideas of freedom from the Scottish owner who has dominated his entire life are reignited. Omar Austin’s beautifully balanced Knight (haunted, witty, clever and sympathetic) is matched by an equally complex Wedderburn (played with a fragile sense of entitlement and a self-destroying rage by Matthew Pidgeon). Enough of Him does not reach a satisfactory conclusion in some respects, narratively there is no definitive ‘cut’ for Knight, but rather takes its final scenes to push a vital thread of Sumbwanyambe’s narrative – one which deliberately waits until the stillness of Knight’s freedom to truly unearth itself.

Shō and the Demons of the Deep, a visual-adventure story about overcoming fear, climate crisis and how the actions of one generation can affect the next, comes to Platform Glasgow in April!Assistant Professor May Sumbwanyambe, who teaches on the Creative Writing MA and English Literature and Creative Writing BA (Hons) courses at Northumbria, said: “As a country, we are educated on the part we played towards ending slavery, but we aren’t always taught about how we contributed to its existence. Sumbwanyambe is simultaneously sophisticated and direct in his characterisation, not only of Knight and Wedderburn, but also of Wedderburn’s wife, Margaret, and of Annie Thompson, the servant at Ballindean who would become Knight’s lover and, ultimately, his wife. A name that should ring through Scottish history to the present, a West African slave who freed himself in the 1770s after an initial defeat. He confesses to his wife—played with subtlety by Rachael-Rose McLaren—that he cannot have a healthy sexual life due to the hideously violent sadism of his relations with black slave women in the Caribbean colony. But, for Joseph, his future is tied up in the past — physical freedom is one thing, psychological freedom another.