STATEMENT OF REGRET
A NEW PLAY BY KWAME KWEI - ARMAH
‘Kwame Kwei-Armah…a truly compelling
voice in modern British theatre.’ Metro
Venue :Cottesloe Theatre
National Theatre, South Bank Complex, London Waterloo
Previews from 7 November, press night
14 November, continuing in repertoire
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Statement of Regret, a new play
by Kwame Kwei-Armah, opens in the Cottesloe Theatre on 14 November,
directed by Jeremy Herrin. The full cast is Angel Coulby, Oscar James,
Trevor Laird, Colin McFarlane, Chu Omambala, Javone Prince, Clifford
Samuel, Ellen Thomas and Don Warrington. The production is designed
by Mike Britton, with lighting by Natasha Chivers and sound by Yvonne
Gilbert.
Whats it about?
Kwaku Mackenzie, founder of a Black
policy think tank, hits the bottle after his father’s death. As media
interest in the once dynamic Institute fades, his team grows fractious
and then, disastrously, he favours a young Oxford scholar over his own
devastated son. When, in a vain attempt to regain influence, he publicly
champions divisions within the Black community, the consequences are
shattering.
Its a punchy, provocative look at the Black British experience and the
need, or not, for solidarity.
Statement of Regret is Kwame Kwei-Armah’s
third play for the National Theatre. He won an Evening Standard award
for most promising playwright for Elmina’s Kitchen (2003) which
was also nominated for an Olivier award for best new play. This was
followed in 2005 by the politically barbed Fix Up.
“This is the bicentenary year of
the abolition of slavery, and it is the first time that I know that
we have been able to talk about slavery as a Black community and not
feel that we’re being subversive, having a chip on the shoulder or
talking about a subject that others would rather not talk about.”.................Kwame Kwei-Armah on
Statement of Regret
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Select your own seats online at www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
Visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/statement to watch the film trailer and for more information
on the play including cast biographies.
STATEMENT OF REGRET is supported
by JPMorgan through the JPMorgan Art of Learning Programme (see below
under ‘New Views’.)
