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About the Show

Mufaro Makubika's adaptation of NoViolet Bulawayo Booker Prize-shortlisted coming-of-age story.

Paradise is the home of 10-year-old Darling and her friends. In their playground, the five kids imagine luxurious lives a world away from theirs in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. But when Darling moves to Michigan, the western world is far from the idyllic America of her dreams …

'We Need New Names is based on the novel by the first Black African woman and the first Zimbabwean to be Booker Prize-shortlisted.

Critic Reviews (3)

“ ‘We Need New Names’ is a wonderful look at the idea of belonging and is equally as heart-breaking as it is uplifting...This play feels exactly like the kind of story that should be told across all of our theatres and I feel extremely privileged to have been able to see NoViolet Bulawayo’s deeply moving and funny story come to life on the stage.”
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"This play is a work about trying to find a home that you’ve left, and to which you cannot return. And with Zimbabwe and other African nations in the midst of intense strife, there will be more like Darling, who leave in search of stability."
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"The clarity of the storytelling enables the six actors in Monique Touko’s supple production to fluently switch race, age and gender, with their accents and body language becoming ever more homogenised and American."
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Fifth Word

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New Perspectives Theatre