Bitter Herb, A
By Kwame Kwei-Armah
Year staged: 2001
Opening night: 05/02/2001
Theatre Company: Bristol Old Vic Theatre; 1946
Staged in: Bristol Old Vic
Cast Size: 5
Synopsis
Valerie MacKenna is a successful middle-class businesswoman, who lives with her husband, Willard, son Peter and adopted white daughter Jaime in comfortable suburbia. When her son John is murdered by white racists, the family are pulled apart as they struggle to cope with the media intrusion and lack of his killers’ conviction in the criminal justice system.
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Production Team
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Playwright
Additional Materials
Production Papers
Ref: BOV/3/2/733/1
University of Bristol Theatre Collection
Production Photographs
Ref: BOV/3/2/733/6/1
University of Bristol Theatre Collection
Production Photographs
Ref: BOV/3/2/733/6/2
University of Bristol Theatre Collection
Production Photograph
Ref: BOV/3/2/733/6/3
University of Bristol Theatre Collection