Adapted for the stage for the first time, A SMALL PLACE Jamaica Kincaid’s searing story about Western colonial exploitation opens at the Gate Theatre, London on 8 November (press night 13 November) with the cast announced today as Nicola Alexis and Cherelle Skeete.

Jamaica Kincaid’s essays, stories and novels are evocative portrayals of family relationships and her native Antigua. Moving to New York at the age of 16 she later became a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and her first book, At the Bottom of the River, a collection of short stories published in 1983, set a pattern for her late work, mixing lyricism and anger. Annie John and Lucy were autobiographical in nature with an emphasis on mother-daughter relationships and A Small Place continued her depiction of Antigua and her rage at its despoliation. Kincaid’s treatment of the themes of family relationships, personhood and the taint of colonialism continued in The Autobiography of My Mother and My Brother, an account of the death of from AIDS of Kincaid’s younger brother. Her ‘Talk of the Town’ columns for The New Yorker, often chronicling Caribbean culture were collected in Talk Stories. Later novels include Among Flowers: A Walk in Himalaya and See Now Then which follows the late-life dissolution of a marriage through the eyes of the jilted wife.

Listings Information
8 November – 1 December at 7.30pm
Wednesday matinee at 3pm on 21 November
Saturday matinees at 3pm on 17 & 24 November and 1 December
Young People’s Night - £7.50 for Under 26s on 23 November
Captioned performance on 27 November

By Jamaica Kincaid
Directed by Anna Himali Howard
Set Design by Camilla Clarke
Lighting Design by Johanne Jensen
Sound Design by Munotida Chinyanga

Cast: Nicola Alexis and Cherelle Skeete

Tickets Previews £14
Under 26 Previews £12
Full Price £24
Under 26 £12
Matinees £18
Under 26 matinees £12
Young People’s Night £7.50

Phone 020 7229 0706
Online gatetheatre.co.uk

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