Ruth Leon recommends: Serving Elizabeth – Stratford Festival

Serving Elizabeth

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In this ingenious contemporary drama, two parallel narratives seem only coincidentally connected, until a surprising twist reveals a deeper relationship between the two.

In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a restaurant proprietor, is hired to cater the impending visit of Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen.

In 2015, another story unfolds in London, England, where a young Kenyan-born Canadian, Tia, is working as an intern on a TV drama series about the British royal family – while also pursuing a writing project of her own.

Weaving between 1950s Kenya and England in 2015, this play by Marcia Johnson  explores issues of colonialism, nationalism and the question of who gets to have a voice.
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The director is Kimberley Rampersad and the production was captured live at Stratford Festival, Ontario in 2021.
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