Listen to Your Parents
By Benjamin Zephaniah
Year staged: 2002
Opening night: 10/09/2002
Theatre Company: Theatre Centre and Nottingham Playhouse
Staged in: College Street, Nottingham
Cast Size: 5
Synopsis
In the week leading up to the youth trials for his beloved Aston Villa football club, Birmingham school boy Mark, whose twin ambition is to be both a legendary poet and world class striker, must screen out the noise of his violent father, a preacher who berates and beats Mark’s mother. As Mark’s football preparations and musings on religion and life continue apace, his father’s violence towards his mother increases.
Original Cast
Kevin G Neil
Dad
Mark Nicolson
Mark
Julie Hewlett
Mom
Richard Sumitro
Wali
Production Team
Paul J Medford
Director
Jane Linz-Roberts
Designer
Nick Richings
Lighting Designer
Nicholas Hall
Fight Director
Jan Haydn Rowles
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