Digital play In Search of a White Identity forms part of The Actors Centre’s On Demand season

New digital show, In Search of a White Identity, which interrogates race, class and masculinity is being presented by The Actors Centre as part of their new On Demand season from Friday 27 November – Sunday 6 December.

Patrick and Mickey grew up together, but now find themselves on opposing sides. Detained in the same police cell having been arrested at the same protest, two men are forced to face the complexity of their upbringing. This powerful new production addresses urgent and timely issues as Patrick and Mickey try to learn to understand each other.

The show is directed by Victoria Evaristo (WMV, WOW Festival Southbank;  Extract, Soho Theatre) and stars writer-performer Cliffordkuju Henry (Top Boy; Dizzee Rascal’s Money Right) as Patrick and Drew Edwards (The Trial of Christine Keeler; Suffragette) as Mickey.

The piece originally featured as part of The Actors Centre’s Working Class season but has been re-envisioned to reflect 2020.

Cliffordkuju Henry said: “I'm truly looking forward to presenting this  piece. The play explores working-class identity, as well as race and masculinity. I've tried to go beyond the political dynamics that have fuelled division, and to find the humanity within these characters – a vocabulary for what they have experienced.”

Theatre Programme Manager at The Actors Centre, Mitchell Reeve, added: “We were all hugely impressed with Cliffordkuju’s script during our Working Class Season, and are incredibly excited for this crucial and pertinent play to reach wider audiences through The Actor's Centre's 'On Demand' programme. It is a piece that works on many different levels, and in today’s political climate its message of unity and commonality against the odds is a powerful and vital one.”

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