Part of the creative team hopes for a new play about the effect of dementia on a black British family will raise a conversation about the disease, which is not proportional to the black British.
Miss Mertel Park is part of Lynette Lenton’s last season in Bush stage In London, the coach said the “beautiful and heart” production is an important opportunity to discuss the causes of the superior dementia.
A report issued in 2022 found that blacks had Registered with a higher rate of 22 % of the dementia From eggs in the United Kingdom.
The play will be directed by Lenton Khalifa Tayo Lawson Written by Danny James King. “The dementia, especially in the black society and the Caribbean society, is a conversation that we need to talk more about,” said Lenton. “It affects many people … Let’s talk about that now and let us give people the support they need.”
The last Linton season will also be characterized by Superwoman Schema, starring Golda Rosheuvel and Letitia Wright as two women who are fighting to reconcile with the death of Matriarch of their family. It comes to “what highlights them and their relationship while they go on this trip to know what her death means.” Lenton He said.
Several plays in the final Linton season focus on old and middle -aged characters. In addition to Superwoman Schema and Miss Myrtle’s Garden, Sweetmeats appear in the banned love between two middle -aged people in South Asia.
Linton recently directed Amendments in the National TheaterWho was the revival of a play for Michael Abnsits, the pioneering British -Gwish playwright that was established in the 1970s.
She said there was no conscious effort to include stories about the elderly of the season, but she felt more stories about black and Asian strings.
“What is very beautiful in the sweet panels, it is a love story between these two Shukhn: How many times do we see a love story between the characters of a specific era?
“I think this has happened because there is something about us to honor our elders at this stage as well. I feel very passionate about it. I have always felt passionate about this, but the modifications have really opened it for me.”
Other plays in the last Linton season including Sunday, which is located in the cooking season that is held in the psychiatry unit in prison; Heart Wall, Kit Withington Play about the challenges of returning home as an adult, and House of Jenin, written and performed by Alaa Shihhada.
Linton takes a break after finishing the bush within two weeks before returning to the direct outline. She was an audio advocate to create more The scene of the diverse theater in the United Kingdom And “l”Disruption“The law created with new works and discovered pieces exceeding the likes of Ibsen, Pinter and Miller.
She said: “It was really about looking at the Sharia and making a decision to tell British and Irish stories specifically with a specific focus on black and Asian sounds, so that we can go:” Look, we are here, and our stories deserve to be on the western side. “
Her artistic director has witnessed for six years alongside assistant director Daniel Billy, who also leaves more than 50 plays carried out by British and Irish theatrical writers, with a special focus on the color book.
During the duration of the spouses, they won four consecutive Olivier Production Awards and won the West End runs for original work, including Red Pitch and Chifters.
They also established the young Bush company during the insurance of Kovid, and produced the play of Lenne Henry I, August in England.
Does Linton have any advice for the new President of Lawson? She said, “Follow your instincts … and remember the people around you are the pulses of this building.”
