Join queer Zimbabwean performer mandla rae for this colourful and personal exploration of childhood migration memories.
My name is mandla.
It means power.
I gave it to myself.
Zimbabwean writer and performer mandla rae has a selective memory and is scrambling to piece together a life mostly forgotten in the name of survival. Through the exploration of mandlas fragmented LGBTQ asylum and childhood migration memories, as british as a watermelon asks powerful questions about belonging, trauma and forgiveness.
Told through an unflinching narrative, weaving poetry and storytelling together with destruction and colourful chaos, you are invited to join mandlas rise from the dead and reclamation of misplaced power.
Supported by British Council, Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh and Claire and Mark Urquhart
Made possible through the PLACE programme
mandla rae Writer and Performer