for all the women who thought they were Mad
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- ISBN 9781786829580
- Weight: 140g
- Dimensions: 124 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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“they like to see us fall
to slip on branches full of fruit we have not tasted”
Lately, it’s small things.
Pop songs.
The radio.
Every day, anguish becomes madness.
Call on your family.
Call on the ancestors.
Can they guide you home?
“we are pearl and earth and root
we know ourselves to be natural and complete
carved from rock that floats
but we should still be careful what we wish for
some of us can sink in the upstream”
for all the women who thought they were Mad is an urgent piece of theatre examining the myriad of forces that collide and conspire against women of colour in Britain today.
Zawe Ashton is a novelist, poet, playwright, filmmaker and actor. She most recently starred on stage in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal alongside Tom Hiddleston and in the film Velvet Buzzsaw alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. Her first novel Character Breakdown was published this year.
