I have to believe
I gave it back.
Rwanda, 1994. A young girl is stranded amongst bodies on a dusty road. She clutches her faded American doll. She steps in front of a car carrying a western diplomat and his family. They take pity on her. She sits in the back with a boy, she lends him her doll, sharing stories of its future. The car arrives at the border, but the guards refuse her crossing. The boy leaves with her doll. She stays.
Sixteen years later. Nathan designs dolls of his own: action figurines into whom he pours his hopes, his dreams, his narrative of the perfect life, and by whom he has won fame and fortune.
Today Grace returns. She wants her doll back.
Wealth is a virtuosic performance event that crosses discipline and convention, a riveting and deeply provocative play about the collisions of culture, memory, story and hope on the precipice of history’s end.
Performed at Cable Street Studios
566 Cable Street E1W 3HB
London
Tickets (at the Jamboree, Cable Street Studios):
£8 Adults
£5 Concessions
16 - 20 & 23 - 27 March @ 8 pm*
20, 21 & 27 March @ 3 pm
* Includes a post-show discussion on the 18th & 25th.
Written by Ben Charland
Directed by Laura Burdon-Manley
Performed by Amie Buhari, Ben Charland & Saskia Solomons
and the Ensemble
Music by Hannah Davis
Choreography by Hayley Adams
Design by Zoe Hinks
Stage Managed by Mark Speed
Lighting Operated by Pierangelo Vidotto
Download the Press Release (.doc) here.
Download the Poster (.jpg) here.
Download the Flyer, Front & Back (.jpg).
Download the Show Programme (.doc) here.
View Production Photos here.
Poster & Flyer Design by Matthew J. Humphreys
