{"product_id":"9781839043185-samuel-takes-a-break-in-male-dungeon-no","title":"Samuel Takes a Break","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary, genre-blending play about colonialism, identity and the attempt to preserve the past, premiered at The Yard Theatre London in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Every one of us will be here for a different particular reason. I am here because I am passionate about history.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. We are at a slave castle in Ghana. Samuel is our tour guide. It's his job to give tourists a really, really authentic experience of the castle's dark history, and to do it all with a smile. Thank you, Samuel!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tourists are Samuel's guests, and they're on a journey of self-discovery. But they're here, standing on soil, blood and bones, asking for a selfie. They want to buy trinkets from the gift shop. Samuel would never want to hurt the tourists. And they would never want to hurt him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRhianna Ilube's \u003cem\u003eSamuel Takes a Break… in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours\u003c\/em\u003e is a genre-blending play about colonialism, identity and the attempt to preserve the past. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Playwriting and the Verity Bargate Award, and was a finalist for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It premiered at The Yard Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41524874477665,"sku":"9781839043185","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26724980.jpg?v=1721225031","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781839043185-samuel-takes-a-break-in-male-dungeon-no","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}