Golgotha

Synopsis

Two people, united by blood and separated by time, weave the tapestry of their lives in this passionate new play about identity, family and homeland. Loretta arrives in Victorian England as a wide-eyed young Ayah for two children. Her dream is to earn enough money for a ticket back to her beloved Indian homeland. A century later, Loretta's great great grandson Kalil leaves his East African homeland to start a new life in England. He dreams of respect and the good life for his family. For both of them, fate intervenes.

Our Review:

26 November 2012

Homelands shift and souls are sliced in a two-course offering from the Conspirators’ Kitchen Theatre. The play thrusts the audience into the dark, tumultuous world of Loretta, an Ayah working in Victorian England, before settling into Kalil’s more sedate account of his journey from East Africa to the UK, decades later. It’s certainly a play of two parts, with a gripping opening, followed unfortunately, by a less satisfactory end.

Loretta (whose real name was deemed too complicated to pronounce), was brought to Victorian England at the tender age of sixteen to take charge of Captain Robert Walsh’s ‘gingernut’ children. An incident with dumplings and a gross injustice propelled her into desperate and destitute circumstances and as her situation worsens the idea of her return to India moves towards a precipice. Decades later, her relative Kalil makes the journey from East Africa, to the UK. A tragic event leads him to resentfully withdra...

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