A comedy special by Njambi McGrath. Filmed live at the Brentham Club.
Njambi is a Pitshanger local resident and has just returned from a month long run at the Edinburgh festival with her show Breaking Black.
The show
“Njambi McGrath’s Breaking Black is an exploration of a black British/African woman’s experience in a hostile post-Brexit Britain and a highlight of the struggles and fragility of immigrants who are too often used as political bait but are a necessary backbone to the functionality of modern Britain. The Black African woman is either completely ignored or too often portrayed in a one dimension paradigm of the victim of disease, war, or in need of saving from primitive cultural practices.”
Press
Sunday Times recommended show called it 'an important voice'
FringeReview recommended show called ‘a satisfying hour’
The Guardian ‘Trail Blazing’
The Scotsman ‘A must see’.
"Billed as “a black British-African woman’s experience in a hostile post-Brexit Britain”, this fifty-minute stand-up comedy show more than delivers on that promise as we also get some very funny and cutting insight into life in Kenya. So, we have a story abut being the only black African living in a white neighbourhood in London, set in the larger context of the impact of the British Empire on Africa and other parts of the globe, and how that has come back to haunt us today. That makes this a satisfying layered show and it’s that deeper context that gives the show its strong punch. Laughter is certainly there for the many one-liners rooted in observation, but also there’s a deeper more tragic laughter at the nature of Britishness and the consequences of forcing that culture onto other peoples and nations.” Fringe Review
The show will have a TV camera crew filming her special. As the show is filmed we have agreed a reduced price of £6 for all tickets bought on line in advance. Any tickets bought on the day will be charged at £12. Doors open at 7.30pm the show will start at 8pm.
