THE 2023 UK Theatre Awards, held at the historic Guildhall in central London on Sunday, marked an evening of success for Scotland’s performing…
A scene from Enough Of Him, by Glasgow-based playwright May Sumbwanyambe, which won the award Best New Play
Sumbwanyambe’s play succeeded against strong competition. Owen McCafferty’s Agreement was also nominated.The nominations in the Best New Play category were completed by Kimber Lee’s celebrated Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play, the Manchester International Festival hit which satirises western culture’s stereotypes of Asian people.
In one particularly remarkable scene, Wedderburn finally admits to his wife that his failure to perform his conjugal duties is due to the sadism of his sexual relations with Black slave women in Jamaica. “I was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Yorkshire, and I never got to see a play like this when I was growing up,” he said.
In Jess and Morgs’s version of the ballet, the lovable toymaker Dr Coppelius is transformed, as I observed in my review for the Sunday National, into a “Zuckerbergian character has a capacity for technological innovation that is well in advance of his moral integrity.