dubpoetry

Matilda and Me

Event Date: 
21/04/2014 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Venue: 
The Bike Shed Theatre

Matilda is my Grandma. She migrated from Jamaica to England in 1962. Now all of her memories have faded. I need to remember for her, for me, for us…

A woman makes a decision that will change her family’s history and the course of their future. Five decades later her granddaughter reflects on the eminence and consequence of that choice, retracing Matilda’s journey to discover how it has shaped her own.

Weaving together storytelling, spoken word, dubpoetry, live art, autobiography, and reggae music, this colourful and challenging performance offers a political viewpoint...