Brixton House
28 April – 6 May 2023
brixtonhouse.co.uk
About the show
Based on the novel by NoViolet Bulawayo, the first Black African woman and first Zimbabwean to be Booker Prize-shortlisted, We Need New Names is a defiant coming-of-age story following 10-year-old Darling’s journey from Zimbabwe to America.
Paradise. Home of 10-year-old Darling and her friends: four children on the edge of innocence. A playground overflowing with mischief and games where they imagine countries a luxurious life away from theirs in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.
But when Darling moves to Michigan, the Western world she encounters as a teenager is far from the American utopia of her dreams…
“…often heart-breaking, but also pulsing with colour and energy”
The Times on the novel We Need New Names
This new stage adaptation by Mufaro Makubika is directed by award-winning director Monique Touko, who has recently directed Gone Too Far (2023) and The Clinic (2022).
