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Shebeen

  • Mufaro Makubika
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1950s
  • 5M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573115455

"Do you think dreams are wasted on people like us?"

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1950s
It's a hot and humid summer in 1958 St Ann's, Nottingham. Tempers are flaring and Teddy Boys are on the march.

Jamaican couple Pearl and George are helping Caribbean migrants to cut loose by hosting a forbidden party at their shebeen.

Pearl has dreams of opening a restaurant on the Wells Road. George, a retired boxer, has hung his dreams next to his gloves. A young interracial couple are falling in love and figuring out how to be together.

As tensions mount on a night filled with rum, calypso and dancing, and with the shebeen under threat from the police, everyone is forced to confront the uncomfortable truths their relationships are built upon. 

Sheebeen is the winner of The Alfred Fagon Award 2017 for Best New Play.

Premiere Production: Shebeen, by Mufaro Makubika, commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse was first performed by Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, in association with Theatre Royal Stratford East, at Nottingham Playhouse on 1 June, 2018.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 4F
  • Casting Notes: The actor who plays CONSTANBLE REED also plays ROBERT DUNNE.

  • PEARL - Female, black, late thirties, Jamaican living in the district around the St Ann's Well Road.
    GEORGE - Male, black, early forties, Pearl's husband, Jamaican living in the district around St Ann's Well Road.
    EARNEST - Male, black, thirties, Trinidadian immigrant living in the district around St Ann Well's Road.
    LINFORD - Male, black, early twenties, Jamaican immigrant living in the district around the St Ann's Well Road.
    MARY - Female, White, early twenties, born and living in the district around the St Ann's Well Road.
    GAYLE - Female, black, twenties, Jamaican immigrant living in the district around the St Ann's Well Road.
    MRS CLARK - Female, white, late forties to early fifties, a neighbour, Mary's mother. Nottingham born and living in the district around the St Ann's Well Road.
    SARGEANT WILLIAMS - Male, white, late forties, police officer. Nottingham born and living in the district around the St Ann's Well Road.
    CONSTANBLE REED - Male, white, mid-to-late twenties, Nottingham born.
    ROBERT DUNNE - Male, white, twenties, London born.
    Supernumeraries to play the GUESTS.

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    It's a hot and humid summer in 1958 St Ann's, Nottingham. Tempers are flaring and Teddy Boys are on the march.

    Jamaican couple Pearl and George are helping Caribbean migrants to cut loose by hosting a forbidden party at their shebeen.

    Pearl has dreams of opening a restaurant on the Wells Road. George, a retired boxer, has hung his dreams next to his gloves. A young interracial couple are falling in love and figuring out how to be together.

    As tensions mount on a night filled with rum, calypso and dancing, and with the shebeen under threat from the police, everyone is forced to confront the uncomfortable truths their relationships are built upon. 

    Sheebeen is the winner of The Alfred Fagon Award 2017 for Best New Play.

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