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WINDRUSH BY SONG: A Caribbean Love Story

  • Leeds Playhouse Leeds LS2 7UP United Kingdom (map)

Ol' Man Swanny with Renaissance One presents

Windrush By Song - A Caribbean Story: Love Finds Us Eventually.

A Dance meets Music and Theatre show about togetherness and community: two hearts that mix up an’ mek somting sweet. After discovering an old photo, a brother and sister are transported to 1940’s Nevis, the Home of Sorel and Ginger, their Grandparents.

Through a Caribbean lens, we see Sorel and Ginger’s journey first apart and then together; leaving Home, arriving on cold shores, finding each other in love and forming a family, all while enduring racist Britain.

Written and directed by Omari Swanston – Jeffers, and featuring Swanston – Jeffers and Catrina Nisbett in leading roles with a full house band directed by Christella Litras. Show produced by Ol’ Man Swanny with Renaissance One and funded by Arts Council England.

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