Ritual By Water
By Edgar Nkosi White
Year staged: 1983
Theatre Company: Lumumba Theatre Group
Staged in: The Factory
Cast Size: 10
Synopsis
Barzey, a youth-centre worker in Hackney is disillusioned with the world. He listens to the news, and buries himself in his books. Though his fortress of radical black academia gives him purpose, it also isolates him from the people around him who are too trapped in the cycles of life to slow down and observe it. His only companion is his imagined guardian angel, Uncle Charles, who always spoke sense into him. As Barzey’s mood declines day to day, he realises his only way out is to rekindle the connections with the people around him.
Original Cast
Gladstone Brown
Barzey
Joseph Iles
Barzey (Understudy)
Eunice Allen
Yvonne
Everal Hall
Uncle Charles
Sandra Edwards
Sybil
Simon Baxendale
Morris / Nutter
David Whyte
Wages
Kofi Don
Wages (Understudy)
Clifton Goldson
Juda
Michael Stuart
Silence
Marigold Brown
Marion
Production Team
Ian Worrell
Director
Marcia Green
Sound and Lighting