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The Westbridge Rachel De-lahay

The Westbridge By Rachel De-lahay

The Westbridge by Rachel De-lahay


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Summary

Joint winner of the 2011 Alfred Fagon award, The Westbridge depicts tension, violence, friendship and love across racial and cultural distinctions. Picking apart an intricate tangle of cultures, religions and generations, The Westbridge showcases an array of voices with humour, style and bite.

The Westbridge Summary

The Westbridge by Rachel De-lahay

'Everyone lived perfectly happily round here together before you young ones try to integrate and confuse things.' The accusation of a Black teenager sparks disturbance on the South London streets. While tensions rise and local rioting starts, a couple from very different backgrounds navigate the minefield between them, their families and their disparate but coexisting neighbourhood. Joint winner of the 2011 Alfred Fagon award (under its former title SW11), The Westbridge showcases an array of multiple voices. Presenting a microcosm of multicultural society, this depiction of London's melting-pot spans ethnicities, religions, generations and outlooks. A very real, convincing drama of human individuals underpins this ambitious, far-reaching and relevant play. Picking apart an intricate tangle of cultures, religions and generations, The Westbridge showcases an array of voices from modern society with humour, style and bite.

The Westbridge Reviews

De-lahay has confronted a living issue... De-lahay captures excellently the confusion of cultural identity in the modern world. -- Michael Billington * Guardian *
This thrilling debut play by Rachel De-lahay plugs straight into the jittery heart of multicultural London today ... De-lahay has an alert ear for comic dialogue and her portrait of mixed-race, upwardly mobile twentysomethings on the estate - one character works in PR, another is an aspiring model - crackles with wit as well as moments of deep emotion. The play raises the provocative question of whether it is possible to shrug off the fraught issue of racial identity ... It's a play that combines sharp one-liners with a savvy sense of the way we live now ... One leaves the theatre impatient to discover what Rachel De-lahay will come up with next. -- Charles Spencer * Telegraph *
Rachel De-lahay's punchy, agile drama ... her dialogue has drive and humour. -- Paul Taylor * Independent *
In her first play, De-lahay shows an impressively complex vision -- Ian Shuttleworth * Financial Times *

About Rachel De-lahay

Rachel De-lahay has recently participated in the Royal Court Young Writers' Programme and has just been selected as one of the BBC Writersroom 10, with the Bush as her partner theatre. She is currently on attachment to the Royal Court Theatre. The Westbridge is Rachel De-lahay's first full-length play.

Additional information

GOR003381496
9781408172018
1408172011
The Westbridge by Rachel De-lahay
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2011-11-02
96
N/A
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