EIF: as british as a watermelon
Tue 23 Aug to Fri 26 Aug 2022
8pm
Running time (approx.): 1 hour
The Studio
Box Office: 0131 529 6000
Ticket prices
£15
Tickets bookable via EIF
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Edinburgh International Festival
as british as a watermelon
Join queer Zimbabwean performer mandla rae for this colourful and personal exploration of childhood migration memories.
‘My name is mandla.
It means power.
I gave it to myself.’
Zimbabwean writer and performer mandla rae has a selective memory and is scrambling to piece together a life mostly forgotten in the name of survival. Through the exploration of mandla’s fragmented LGBTQ asylum and childhood migration memories, as british as a watermelon asks powerful questions about belonging, trauma and forgiveness.
Told through an unflinching narrative, weaving poetry and storytelling together with destruction and colourful chaos, you are invited to join mandla’s rise from the dead and reclamation of misplaced power.
The Refuge series is supported by British Council, Edinburgh Futures Institute at theUniversity of Edinburgh and Claire and Mark Urquhart
Made possible through the PLACE programme
as british as a watermelon Trailer
Refuge Series
mandla rae Writer and Performer
From priority booking, under-18s are entitled to a 50% discount and disabled people are entitled to a 30% concession discount.
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Fri 26 August 8.00PM
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Tue 23 August 8.00PM
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