Lemn Sissay
Why I Don't Hate White People
Mon 15 & Tue 16 Mar 2010 7.45pm
Studio £10 (£8)
Director: John E McGrath
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CloseHe didn’t know a black person until he was eighteen. It wasn’t his fault. They just thought it was better that way. He spent most of his adult life searching for his family who were black like him. It’s a story explored in his previous award-winning play Something Dark.
In Why I Don’t Hate White People Lemn continues the journey, not for family this time but for something more evasive – race. This is a whirlwind tour of race as seen from one man’s unique and intensely personal perspective as he seeks a truth, trying to find if there is something he is missing in the quagmire of race relations.
Exploring this contentious area with humour and originality, Lemn depicts some unexpected race-related situations, from an anti-slavery workshop where he chains up his students and leaves them in the classroom, to the launch of a new Richard Pryor Centre for Equality, which implodes at the opening ceremony.
The result of Lemn’s journey into race is his discovery of the many reasons why he doesn’t, in fact, hate white people.
“Sissay’s wide-eyed and big-hearted approach is thoughtful and often very moving.” Metro
Dates & Times
| Mon 15 Mar | Studio | 7:45pm | ||
| Tue 16 Mar | Studio | 7:45pm |
Studio
Warwick Arts Centre's intimate Studio Theatre space provides a platform for the work of emerging artists as well as many established performers from the worlds of theatre, dance and music.
Part of A Night Less Ordinary
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Past events from A Night Less Ordinary
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We All Fall Down
04 Oct 2009
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It Came from Pilot 2009
08 Oct 2009
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Deep Cut
13 Oct 2009
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Watch Me Fall
20 Oct 2009
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Moby Dick
26 Oct 2009
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A Tempest
01 Nov 2009
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Insane in the Brain
03 Nov 2009
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Actors V Spectators
04 Nov 2009
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The Idiot Colony
09 Nov 2009
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Kellerman
11 Nov 2009
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The Art of Laughter: Jos Houben
13 Nov 2009
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The Night Keeper
14 Nov 2009
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The Black Album
17 Nov 2009
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Cinderella
05 Dec 2009
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The Red Shoes (U)
02 Jan 2010
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Handful of Henna
09 Feb 2010
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Three Sisters
23 Feb 2010
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Forever in Your Debt
02 Mar 2010
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Meeting Joe Strummer
03 Mar 2010
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John Hegley
05 Mar 2010
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How Cold My Toes
07 Mar 2010
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The Forest
10 Mar 2010
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Superstition Mountain
17 Mar 2010
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Sweet Nothings
27 Apr 2010
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Kursk
04 May 2010
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Britain's Got Bhangra
25 May 2010
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Return
02 Jun 2010
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Sorry!
05 Jun 2010
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The Mermaid Princess
12 Jun 2010
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Apples
14 Jun 2010
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Decky Does A Bronco
21 Jun 2010
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Little Gem
05 Oct 2010
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Tuning Out with Radio Z
14 Oct 2010
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The Thrill Of It All
19 Oct 2010
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The Author
19 Oct 2010
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The Red Shoes
26 Oct 2010
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Bonnie and Clyde
26 Oct 2010
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6.0: How Heap & Pebble Took on the World and Won
02 Nov 2010
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Punk Rock
16 Nov 2010
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Hansel & Gretel
26 Nov 2010
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Pilot
25 Jan 2011
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Third Person: Bonnie & Clyde Redux
15 Feb 2011
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Missing (work in progress)
17 Feb 2011
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Best Before
22 Feb 2011
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A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson
22 Feb 2011
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Stationary Excess / Pedestrian Double Bill
24 Feb 2011
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The Tempest
03 Mar 2011
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Goucher's War
08 Mar 2011
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And The Horse You Rode In On
15 Mar 2011
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Hamlet the Clown Prince
16 Mar 2011
1 Comment
Dear Lemn,
I admire your patience for everything you faced in your life. We can assure you that something good will come out between you and your Mom.
Please contact us!!!
HANNA KEBEDE at 5:10pm on Fri 26th Nov 2010