Prayer, The
By Grant Buchanan Marshall
Year staged: 2000
Opening night: 05/07/2000
Theatre Company: Talawa Theatre Company; 1986
Staged in: Young Vic
Cast Size: 4
Synopsis
As a young boy, Granville is subjected to physical and mental torture by his bullying father. He is beaten into submission, battered into a complete wreck, and forced to pay the price of his father’s ambition, meanwhile his mother looks on in complicit silence. One day, many years later, Granville returns to the family home.
Original Cast
Gordon Case
Father
Jean Binta Breeze
Mother
Dominic Letts
John
Anthony Ekundayo Lennon
Granville
Production Team
Michael Buffong
Director
Tom Lishman
Sound
Ellen Cairns
Designer
Albie Ollivierre
Choreography
Ace McCarron
Lighting
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