You can't just walk into dis bad man t'ing, you gotta learn the whole science of it. You step into that arena and you better be able to dance wid death til it mek you dizzy.
The Yardies are burning up Hackney and Digger's offer of protection for the diner smacks more of threat than promise. How can Deli save his truanting, thieving son when temptation looms so large on Murder Mile?

It's Black History month but you wouldn't know it in Tottenham where Revive PLC plan to turn Kwesi's All Black African Party hotbed into luxury flats, and it looks like Kiyi's 'conscious' bookstore will soon go the same way. And then a beautiful visitor shows up in their midst and life goes from bad to worse.
Set against the inexorable march of progress in contemporary London, Kwame Kwei-Armah's second play for the National explores race and roots with verve and wit.

"Being around too much white folk. I seen the bluest of blackest men get too much exposure bam, they lose their...

This collection highlights the work of critically-acclaimed playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah who has brought a distinctive new voice and examination of multiculturalism to the London stage. Included are a trilogy of plays commissioned and produced by the National Theatre in London between 2003 and 2008, and Let There Be Love, first produced at the Tricycle Theatre, London, in 2008.

Elmina's Kitchen won numerous awards as was hailed as "A scorching drama about the black experience in Britain's inner cities. . . there is no mistaking its raw power, humanity and urgent...