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Peanut Butter & Blueberries involves Kiln Theatre in London

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Jun 02, 2024 / 5544 Views

Evan Walker

The place and when?

Kiln Theatre
269 Kilburn Excessive Street, London, UK, NW6 7JR

8 August – 31 August 2024

What’s the present about?

Hafsah and Bilal should not searching for love. She has her religion, her books, her goals. Bilal…effectively he’s simply attempting to get by way of uni.

Finding out in London, removed from their hometowns of Bradford and Birmingham, they discover widespread floor over a peanut butter and blueberry sandwich. Simply as their connection is rising, the previous and social realities develop into tougher to disregard. Between alternatives, obligations and injustices, will they be capable to select one another?

In her debut play, writer, poet and educator Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan explores the right way to love when the burden of the world is in your shoulders.

Who’s within the forged?

Usaamah Ibraheem Hussain performs Bilal. His theatre credit embrace Brown Boys Swim (Soho Theatre). His tv work consists of Floor and the upcoming BBC collection Virdee. Humera Syed performs Hafsah. Her theatre credit embrace: Nice Expectations (Royal Alternate Theatre), FAITH(RSC/Coventry Metropolis of Tradition), The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Arabian Knights (Royal Lyceum Theatre), and Anita and Me (UK Tour). Her tv work consists of: The Stranger and Hullraisers.

Artistic group

Director Sameena Hussain; Designer Khadija Raja; Lighting Designer Rajiv Pattani; Sound Designer Helen Skiera; Casting Director Julia Horan CDG; Manufacturing Supervisor Marty Moore; Costume Supervisor Maariyah Sharjil

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a author, poet and educator. Her newest guide, Seeing for Ourselves: And even stranger prospects was printed by Hajar Press in September 2023. Previous to this she authored Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (Pluto Press, 2022). In 2019 her debut poetry assortment Postcolonial Banter was printed, that includes eight years’ price of poetry together with her viral poem That is Not a Humanising Poem which positioned her as runner-up of the Nationwide Roundhouse Poetry Slam in 2017 and has over two million views on-line. Postcolonial Banter critiques and troubles narratives about racism, systemic Islamophobia, the operate of the nation-state and secularist visions of identification. She was resident author on the Leeds Playhouse (2021-22), a Visiting Analysis Fellow within the College of Geography at Queen Mary College of London (2020-22), and was chosen for the Royal Courtroom 2021 Writers Group.

Sameena Hussain is freelance Theatre Director based mostly in West Yorkshire. She is Affiliate Director at Leeds Playhouse. Theatre credit as Director: Romeo & Juliet, Leeds Conservatoire (2023) A Christmas Carol, Hull Truck Theatre (2022) I Wanna Be Yours Leeds Playhouse (2022) Our White Skoda Octavia Japanese Angles (2021) Dir: Many years Leeds Playhouse (2021) Dir: La Voix Humaine (2020), Opera North/Leeds Playhouse; theatre credit as Affiliate Director: A Christmas Carol (2020) Henry V, (2019) Lawrence Batley Theatre; and theatre credit as Assistant Director: Dr Korczak’s Dr Korczak’s Instance, Evening Earlier than Christmas, There Are No Beginnings, (2019-20) Leeds Playhouse Europe, Street and A Christmas Carol (2018) (Leeds Playhouse)

Entry performances

Audio Described               29 August, 7pm, preceded by a Contact Tour
Captioned                           22 August, 7pm
Relaxed                               28 August, 2.30pm

Underneath 26 – £10 (topic to availability)
Entry, Over 65, Native, Pupil and Group charges out there, for additional particulars, please see the web site.

Subsidised tickets
We provide free tickets and unique reductions to those that can’t afford to come back. When you match any of the beneath standards, get in contact and we might help you get a ticket.

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Prayer Area
Through the run of Peanut Butter & Blueberries, there will likely be prayer house out there on the Kiln Theatre premises for audiences to make use of. The present is predicted to finish earlier than 8.30pm all through the run and the theatre will facilitate viewers members, who want to wish the sundown prayer, in doing so instantly after the present. Moreover, there are two mosques at a brief distance from the theatre: the Kilburn Islamic Centre (292-294 Kilburn Excessive Rd) simply throughout the road (400 toes) and the Kilburn & Hampstead Masjid (239 Kilburn Excessive Rd) a 1 minute stroll away.