SAMUEL TAKES A BREAK ...IN MALE DUNGEON NO. 5 AFTER A LONG BUT GENERALLY SUCCESSFUL DAY OF TOURS

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About the Show

Debut writer Rhianna Ilube's play about attempting to preserve the past.

Samuel is a tour guide at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. It's his job to educate tourists about the castle's dark history and to do it all with a smile.

Orange is a ticket officer who knows there must be more to Samuel than the grinning colleague she sees every day at the castle.

They both begin to question the morality of their visitors, who stand on a site that has a brutal history but ask for a selfie and want to buy trinkets from the gift shop...

Rhianna Ilube (shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting and Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award) pens this new play, which is directed by The Yard Theatre’s Deputy Artistic Director Anthony Simpson-Pike ('Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors').

This production is recommended for ages 16+.

Critic Reviews (4)

"...a forensic cross-examination of the dark tourism industry."
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"funny and thought-provoking"
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"Ilube takes the premise and turns it into a see-sawing satire about atrocity tourism"
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"a sharply funny look at the reverberation of colonialism into the present day"
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