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Samuel Takes a Break
in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours
Rhianna IlubeSeries: NHB Modern Plays(0)
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It is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. We are at a slave castle in Ghana. Samuel is our tour guide. It's his job to give tourists a really, really authentic experience of the castle's dark history, and to do it all with a smile. Thank you, Samuel!
The tourists are Samuel's guests, and they're on a journey of self-discovery. But they're here, standing on soil, blood and bones, asking for a selfie. They want to buy trinkets from the gift shop. Samuel would never want to hurt the tourists. And they would never want to hurt him.
The tourists are Samuel's guests, and they're on a journey of self-discovery. But they're here, standing on soil, blood and bones, asking for a selfie. They want to buy trinkets from the gift shop. Samuel would never want to hurt the tourists. And they would never want to hurt him.
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Reviews
"'Audacious... a superb satire on atrocity tourism and the legacy of slavery... Rhianna Ilube's play is as outrageous as it sounds... broad comedy lurches suddenly into deep meditations on the reality and the destructive legacy of colonialism... fresh and fascinating'"
Time Out
"'A forensic cross-examination of the dark tourism industry. Ilube digs deep into colonialism's impact on British identity and asks, poignantly, how we are supposed to preserve the horrors of the past... Ilube's writing makes you shake, laugh and not for one second forget the castle's past'"
Guardian
"'A sharply funny look at the reverberation of colonialism into the present day... humour shaded with insight and empathy'"
The Stage
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- SeriesNHB Modern Plays