The Women of Llanrumney
23 May 2024Size: 198mm x 129mm
23 May 2024
The Women of Llanrumney
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Stratford East, London
From Wed 19 Mar 2025 to Sat 12 Apr 2025 Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
From Sat 26 Apr 2025 to Sat 10 May 2025
- Best Writer, The Stage Debut Awards - 2024
Llanrumney plantation. Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. 1765.
Annie and Cerys are enslaved by the Morgan family from Wales. When Elizabeth Morgan is faced with the loss of her plantation, the slaves' future hangs in the balance.
With a storm of rebellion brewing, Annie does everything she can to secure her future. But sooner or later she will have to face up to the horror and trauma all around her, including her own.
Azuka Oforka's play The Women of Llanrumney is a powerful, searing drama that explores the impact of slavery and the lives of women who experienced it – those who benefitted from it, those who were brutalised by it and those who fought to destroy it. It premiered at Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, in 2024, directed by Patricia Logue.
Azuka Oforka was the joint winner of the Best Writer award at The Stage Debut Awards 2024.
'Blistering... conceptually brilliant, with complex characters and a fearless cast... a remarkable examination of women under colonialism... searing... unambiguously contemporary... Oforka is an urgent and important voice in Welsh theatre'
Guardian'Searing, subtle, nuanced, illuminating, funny, and, above all, thought-provoking'
Reviews Hub'A scorching writing debut... soars in its boldness... epic sweep, exposing the grotesqueness of colonialism... marks the arrival of an exhilarating new voice'
The Stage'Fearless and unflinching'
Cardiff Times23 May 2024Size: 198mm x 129mm
23 May 2024
