Kwame kwei-armah elminas kitchen
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Elmina's Kitchen
Kwame Kwei-Armah has had a couple of years that some entertainment veterans dream about. Winner of the Evening Standard award for most promising playwright for Elmina's Kitchen, he became more popular than A & E on a Saturday night as Finlay Newton in Casualty. He followed that with the runner-up spot on Celebrity Fame Academy and even proved he had all he answers when he appeared on Question Time.
Now, after the success of Elmina's Kitchen at the National Theatre, Kwei-Armah is starring in his own play which Birmingham Rep is taking on a mini-tour.
He plays the lead role of Deli, an ex-boxer and former criminal trying to turn into an honest success his Caribbean café in Hackney, named Elmina's Kitchen in memory of his grandmother. At the same time he's trying to keep his 19-year-old son Ashley away from the temptations faced by youngsters growing up in a world dominated by drugs, guns and London's Yardie culture.
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Dr. P. Bagavathy Rajan
Assistant Professor (SS), Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering
and Technology,Pollachi. Tamilnadu, India 642 003
Literature is an imitation of life. Among the literary genres, teaterpjäs has a distinctive feature. In drama, the purpose of literature is arrived at even bygd those who cannot read and write. They get entertained and educated by watching a teaterpjäs. But, with reference to all other genres one should know to read and comprehend. Regarding drama, it is enough for one to go to the theatre. The main characters get introduced; they involve themselves in action that leads to conflicts, which reaches a climax and ends with denouement, the unraveling of plot. As Mathew Arnold points out life is criticized. And the audience is enlightened on how to avoid the pitfalls in reality.
In the play Elmina’s Kitchen life of black people in the 21stcentury England is presented. W.E.B. Du Bois in the first chapter of The Souls of Black • 2003 play by Kwame Kwei-Armah Elmina's Kitchen, first performed in May 2003, is the fifth play from the Britishactor, playwright and broadcaster, Kwame Kwei-Armah. Set in a West Indian restaurant in London, Elmina's Kitchen tells a tale of family, drugs and crime on Hackney's Murder Mile. The play is centred on the character of Deli, the owner of a West Indian restaurant and father to Ashley. Ashley is a misguided teen who cannot help but be seduced by the gangster culture that surrounds him. Deli tries to run a successful restaurant while attempting to keep his son on the straight and narrow particularly when his son gets closer to a well-known local gangster, Digger.[1] Elmina's Kitchen premiered in May 2003 at the National Theatre, London, where it ran until 25 August 2003. During its stint at the National Theatre, the play was directed bygd Angus Jackson and starred Doña Croll, Oscar J
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