Elmina's Kitchen

Elmina's Kitchen
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Publisher : Methuen Drama
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 1350134872
ISBN-13 : 9781350134874
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Book Synopsis Elmina's Kitchen by : Kwame Kwei-Armah

Download or read book Elmina's Kitchen written by Kwame Kwei-Armah and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't just walk into dis bad man t'ing, you gotta learn the whole science of it. You step into that arena and you better be able to dance wid death til it mek you dizzy. Kwame Kwei-Armah's ground-breaking play about British black male identity and gang culture premiered at the National Theatre in 2003 to unanimous critical praise. It later transferred to the West End, making Kwei-Armah only the second black British playwright to have a play staged there and the winner of the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award. On Hackney's Murder Mile, Deli is trying to make a living as an honest man and revive the fortunes of his mother's West Indian takeaway. His 19-year-old son Ashley has different plans and longs to follow in the footsteps of family friend and local gangster Digger. As Deli finds himself and his business pulled further into the world he so desperately wants to leave behind questions of family and gang loyalty rise to the surface, leading to a shocking and conflicted conclusion. Elmina's Kitchen is a thrilling, engaging portrait of a one-parent family struggling to stay within the law that takes readers behind the headlines and shows how easy it is to make the wrong choices when you're struggling to survive. Elmina's Kitchen premiered at the National Theatre, London, in May 2003. Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Plays series began in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey and has grown over six decades to now include more than 1000 plays by some of the best writers from around the world. This new special edition hardback of Elmina's Kitchen was published to celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays in 2019, chosen by a public vote and features a brand new foreword by Paterson Joseph.


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