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MWEWA SUMBWANYAMBE
Nationality: British
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Literary Agent: Berlin Associates
Playwright May Sumbwanyambe has taken part in several young writers programmes, including most recently the Royal Court's invitation only studio group. He has also been attached to the West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse with the support of two BBC seed commissions. In 2011, May's plays were shortlisted for both the Alfred Fagon and the BBC's Alfred Bradley Awards. He has been shortlisted for OffWestEnd'ss Adopt a Playwright award on two occasions, reached the final round of Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate Award and was also longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award. Currently writing under commission to Hull Truck Theatre, his shorter work includes With Fumes of Human Roast (Hampstead Theatre Start Night) and Feeding the Birds (the Old Vic 24 Hour Plays). May is also a tutor on both the West Yorkshire Playhouse's annual new writing programmes.
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After Independence After the Flood Back Home Contemplation Feeding the Birds Why Do All Catherines Call themselves Kate?After Independence
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Africa is changing. Country by country, step by step. But for Guy and Kathleen, life on their ranch goes on, just as it has since their ancestors first claimed this land. Until a man from the new government arrives with a smile and a purchase order - but there's more than just land at stake. Charles will do whatever it takes to restore the farm to the 'native' population. A game of cat and mouse, claim and counter-claim, begins, with the heritage of an entire nation to play for. As truths are revealed and moralities questioned, are things ever more than simply black and white? Inspired by real events in Zimbabwe.
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political drama
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Written by Cesar Abella, Alex Christofi, Megan Ford, Joyce Lee, Martin Murphy, Mwewa Sumbwanyambe, And Jennifer Tuckett
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Old Vic Theatre, the Cut, London SE1 8NB >>>
19 Oct 2009
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Old Vic New Voices
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Top of PageBack Home Contemplation
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When Melissa's mother, a famous Zimbabwean Prostitute, passes away on the eve of the 2008 presidential elections. Melissa gets the one thing she has wanted all of her life. To meet her English Father Mwemba. But is he ready to respond to the daughter he never knew he had and answer to the decisions that have paralyzed all of their lives? Several months later, to find safety from Mugabe's militias and campaign of torture, Garikai has led his British educated half-siblings, Patience and BUSAni, into southern Zambia. But as more displaced Zimbabweans find their way to the growing communal fire, clinging onto the fragile hope that their parents are still alive somewhere in the over populating townships of northern South Africa becomes harder and harder. . .
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third place in the Papatango Playwriting Competition 2012
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This play compares student onion pickers with the "illegals" who have to take the job seriously. the bittersweet comedy centres on a limping farmer and student memorialising his father.
- Philip Fisher, British theatre Guide
- Philip Fisher, British theatre Guide
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part of the 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices
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New Year's Eve. the guests play loan shark Max's perverted party games or face the consequences at midnight. Exhilaratingly performed in real time.
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Zoo Southside (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
2009
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