Theatre Centre and National Drama: Princess and The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba

About this event
Director Rob Watt and playwright Chinonyerem Odimba explore how to create exciting learning activities for your inspirational Drama classroom.

Spend time with writer Chinonyerem Odimba and Theatre Centre Artistic Director Rob Watt to uncover more about her “Richly textured, passionate and enormously affecting” (The Times) play and how you can teach it in your drama class. The Princess and the Hustler was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award 2018 for Best New Play.

SYNOPSIS

Meet Princess. A cheeky 10-year-old with a plan to win the Weston-Super-Mare Beauty Contest. Trouble is, her mum is busy working several jobs, her brother, a budding photographer, won’t even take her picture and then – The Hustler returns.

In 1963 Bristol, as Black British civil rights activists take to the streets, Princess finds out what it really means to be black and beautiful.

CHINONYEREM ODIMBA

Chinonyerem is a Nigerian British playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Her recent work ranges from Medea at Bristol Old Vic, We Too Are Giants for Kiln Theatre, Unknown Rivers at Hampstead Theatre, Prince and the Pauper at Watermill Theatre, The Seven Ages of Patience at Kiln Theatre, and Princess & The Hustler which toured across the UK for Eclipse Theatre/Bristol Old Vic/Hull Truck.