
Fix Up
By Kwame Kwei-ArmahSetting:
'Fix Up' bookstore, Thursday late afternoon in early October - Black History Month
No. acts:
1
Cast total:
9
Male cast:
5
Female cast:
4
Synopsis
It’s Black History month but you wouldn’t know it in Tottenham where Revive PLC plan to turn Kwesi’s All Black African Party hotbed into luxury flats, and it looks like Kiyi’s ‘conscious’ bookstore will soon go the same way. And then a beautiful visitor shows up in their midst and life goes from bad to worse."Being around too much white folk. I seen the bluest of blackest men get too much exposure bam, they lose their rhythm. Put on a James Brown tune and they start doing the Charleston to ras!"
Original Cast:
Jeffery Kissoon | Brother Kiyi |
Mo Sesay | Carl |
Steve Toussaint | Kwesi |
Claire Benedict | Norma |
Nina Sosanya | Alice |
Jon Clairmonte | Singer |
Claire Coates | Singer |
Siam Hurlock | Singer |
Nigel Wong | Singer |
Production Team:
Angus Jackson | Director |
Bunny Christie | Designer |
Jason Barnes | Production Manager |
Pete Bull | Assistant to the Lighting Designer |
Stephanie Arditti | Costume Supervisor |
Neil Austin | Lighting Designer |
Catherine Ashmore | Production Photographer |
Neil McArthur | Music Supervisor / Arranger |
Gareth Fry | Sound Designer |
Jo Nield | Assistant Stage Manager |
Struan Leslie | Movement Director |
Patsy Rodenburg | Company Voice Coach |
Tim Blazdell | Design Associate |
Michael Mayhew | Poster designer |
Stephen Cummiskey | Programme Designer |
Timandra Dyer | Assistant Production Manager |
Nick Drake | Literary Translator |
Nik Haffenden | Deputy Stage Manager |
Carolyn Downing | Associate Sound Designer |
Publications
Title | Year | Publisher | NT Library |
---|---|---|---|
Fix Up | 2004 | Methuen | No |
Kwame Kwei-Armah Plays 1: Elmina's Kitchen; Fix Up; Statement of Regret; Let There Be Love | 2009 | Methuen | No |
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers | 2011 | Methuen | No |
Assets
Type | Code |
---|---|
NT audio recording of Scene 4 | BBPA/3/1/25 |
Article on the history of black philosophy | BBPA/2/3/4 |
Poster | National Theatre, RNT/PP/2/4/260B |