Category: Elijah Williams

Photo by Clare Hawley Outhouse Theatre Co and the Seymour Centre presents, THE ROLLING STONE, by Chris Urch, in the Reginald Theatre, at the Seymour Centre, Chippendale. 5th – 21st July. THE ROLLING STONE is an Award winning British play, by Chris Urch, written in 2014. This play is set in Uganda, and concerns the dilemmas of a fundamental Christian family: three siblings, Dembe (Elijah Williams), his sister, Wummie (Zufi Emerson), both promising students, and Pastor brother, Joe (Mandela Mathia), when the youngest, 18 year old Dembe, realises his homosexuality. By Ugandan law it is the family’s duty to denounce…

Photo by Nick McKinlay bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company presents, an Australian premiere of BLACK JESUS, by Anders Lustgarten, at the Kings Cross Theatre (KXT), in the Kings Cross Hotel, 29 April – 21 May. BLACK JESUS, introduces to the Australian (Sydney) audience, a political/activist writer, Anders Lustgarten. He lives in Britain and was the inaugural winner of the Harold Pinter Prize. His plays have included amongst others: IF YOU DON’T LET US DREAM, WE WON’T LET YOU SLEEP (2013) – concerned with financial capitalism; LAMPEDUSA (2015) – concerned with the refugee/migrant situation in Europe. BLACK JESUS, written in 2013, is set in…