A new play by Women’s Prize for Playwriting and Alfred Fagon Award shortlisted writer Esohe Uwadiae opens in London this summer

‘The sky has the stars and I have you by my side’

TO BE YOU is an intimate, vivid and fast-moving monologue, charting the shifting bond between two girls growing up in Essex and their desperate hunger to belong: one Black and aching to be seen, one biracial and determined to reinvent herself at any cost.

Shortlisted for the inaugural Mustapha Matura Award, this raw and darkly humorous exploration of the brutal and beautiful tangle of girlhood and adolescence, questions the cost of belonging and what you’d kill to pay it.

TO BE YOU was developed with support from the Mercury Theatre and Marlowe Theatre through the Catalyst for Culture Initiative.

Performances

Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, London, SE10 8ES

21^st July @ 7pm

Booking https://greenwichtheatre.org.uk/book/?event=293002

The Glitch, 134 Lower Marsh, London SE1 7AE

12^th – 24^th August: 7pm every day except Tuesdays, with an additional 2pm performance on Saturdays

Booking https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vaultcreativearts/2176719