Black and She's Leaving Home

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Black Nikki doesnt think her dad is a racist He just cares deeply about his community But when a Zimbabwean family move in over the road, the dog wont stop barking The local kids start lobbing stones And her dad starts laying down the law. Black is a hard-hitting play about racial tensions in the UK today She's Leaving Home At 15, Kelsey has her whole life in front of her and feels that she has everything she wants: good mates, a supportive family and big ambitions. But as the years roll by she slowly realises that leaving home to fulfill her dreams isnt as easy as she first imagined. Shes Leaving Home was commissioned by Culture Liverpool as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles seminal album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. With bracing insight into the worlds of two young women with very different struggles, Keith Sahas Black and Shes Leaving Home force the issues of modern Britain to take centre stage. This edition was published to coincide with 20 Stories Highs national tour of Black in 2018.

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[She's Leaving Home] prises open cracks in the ordinary...The terraced house in which we sit transforms into a magical realist world, sensitively realised under Julia Samuelss direction. Keith Sahas script catches the cadences of teenage speech, flecked with poetry...The setting beautifully amplifies the intimacy of our immersion in this life, but this production would succeed equally in other spaces. It certainly deserves a life beyond the festival. * Clare Brennan on She's Leaving Home, Guardian, 2017 *
RARELY IS A PLAY SO FRESH SEEN ON THE LIVERPOOL STAGE. AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH. 10/10. * Marc Waddington on Ghost Boy, Liverpool Echo *
There is an attitude, a lyricism and a sharp observational humour in Saha's writing that you don't get to see and hear every day, and this play's ability to make you laugh one minute and be on the verge of tears the next is the mark of great theatre. * Marc Waddington on Melody Loses her Mojo, Liverpool Echo, 2013 *

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Keith Saha won the Brian Way Award 2011 for producing the UK's best new play for children and young people with his play Ghost Boy, a co-production with Contact and Birmingham Rep. His highly inventive, hard-hitting and challenging work fuses Hip-hop theatre with puppetry. Keith Saha is the Artistic Director of Twenty Stories High, a theatre company based in Liverpool