Slaves
From: Tuesday, 26th January 2010
To: Saturday, 20 February 2010
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Synopsis
HMP Wandsworth. 1665 prisoners. Rising star prison officer Chris Jackson knows nothing is simply black or white. His superiors don't trust him, the prisoners suspect him, and his girlfriend is being stalked. Confronted by Paul 'Jenks' Jenkins, an inmate whose fingers reach far beyond the prison walls, the two men begin a fight for survival on opposite sides of an indifferent system that makes a slave of everyone.
Our Review:
1 February 2010
Rex Obano (See Interviews, 24 Jan 2010) was working at HMP Wandsworth when he started writing Slaves, a no holds barred depiction of a toxic prison system which turns all involved into slaves.
Bright spark prison officer Chris Jackson, whose only previous experience has been behind a desk but who is being groomed for the fast-track to a governorship, thinks he knows it all when he arrives at his new post on a lifers' wing. He quickly finds out however that it's not only his superiors and other officers who don't trust him; the prisoners also suspect his motives and one, Jenks, even poses a physical threat to him and his family.
The officers' main focus is maintaining the status quo. The prisoners too seem to know where they are with the disciplinarian tactics of overtly racist officer White and his colleagues, and with the pecking order among the inmates.
Director Nadia Latif has brought to life an astonis...
Cast
Adetomiwa Edun
Beru Tessema
Scarlett Alice Johnson
Cornell S. John
Owen Oakeshott
Paul Bentall
David Burt
Rob Ostlere
Creative
Rex Obano (Author)
Theatre 503 (Producer)
Nadia Latif (Director)
Lorna Ritchie (Design)
Michael Nabarro (Lighting)
John Leonard (Sound)
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