The Young Vic Theatre has introduced full casting for Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah‘s (The Collaboration) razor-sharp satire and UK premiere, Beneatha’s Place, concerning the energy of figuring out your historical past and the price of letting it go. The manufacturing runs within the Main House from 27 June to five August with opening night time for press on 5 July.
Cherrelle Skeete (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Hanna) will star as Beneatha Younger, Zackary Momoh (Seven Seconds, The Nevers) as Joseph Asagai/Wale Oguns, Sebastian Armesto (Leopoldstadt, The Tudors) as Daniel Barnes/Prof Mark Bond, Jumoké Fashola (The High Table, For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad) as Prof Shirley Jones/Aunty Fola, Tom Godwin (Best of Enemies, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical) as Mr Nelson/Prof Gary Jacobs, and Nia Gwynne (Tolkien, Timon of Athens) as Mrs. Nelson/Dr Harriet Banks.
1959. The first wave of independence is sweeping throughout Africa and Beneatha has left the unfairness of Nineteen Fifties America for a brighter future along with her Nigerian husband in Lagos. But on the day they transfer into their new home within the white suburbs, it doesn’t take lengthy for cracks to look, altering the course of the remainder of their lives.
Present day. Now a famend Dean whose colleagues are questioning the function of African American research for future generations, Beneatha returns to the identical home looking for solutions.
Inspired by the groundbreaking civil rights drama, A Raisin within the Sun, Beneatha’s Place challenges at the moment’s tradition wars about colonial historical past and reckoning with the previous.
The artistic staff is accomplished by Set and Costume Designer Debbie Duru, Lighting Designer Mark Henderson, Sound Designer Tony Gayle, Voice and Dialect Coach Esi Acquaah-Harrison, Casting Director Heather Basten CDG, Jerwood Assistant Director Ellis and Jerwood Trainee Assistant Director Tia-zakura Camilleri.
Tickets are on sale now at www.youngvic.org