Lemn Sissay
This event on 2nd March 2010 at 19:30 has past.
Contact: www.axisartscentre.org,uk
Written and performed by Lemn Sissay
Directed by John E McGrath
Set & Costume Design by Rachana Jadhav
He didn’t know a black person until he was eighteen. It wasn’t his fault. They just thought it was better that way.
Acclaimed poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster Lemn Sissay – the child of an unlikely liaison between Wigan Social Services, Ethiopia and Eritrea – spent most of his adult life searching for his family. In Why I Don’t Hate White People, he continues searching – not for family but for something more evasive: race. Fusing the lyrical and polemical, this is a whirlwind tour of race as seen from one man’s unique and intensely personal perspective.
Lemn Sissay is artist-in-residence at the Southbank Centre. He has recently returned from an expedition to the Antarctic with the charity Cape Farewell and has fed some of the creative ideas inspired by the trip into Why I Don’t Hate White People.
co-produced by Artsadmin & the Lyric Hammersmith with support from the Stir It Up Consortium
Entry: £7.50, £4.50 conc
Time: 7:30pm
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