Three Plays Ning Ken

Three Plays Ning KenThese three plays, composed between 1994 and 2004 are linked by the theme of war: actual, remembered or threatened. They are all tragicomic and each written for a strong female lead.

my grandfather’s cloak still hooked on it

Tom introduces me to a couple of girls that I recognise from Dailys and they turn out to be Tina and Mimi

he is also capable of a raw clarity that hammers home his meaning

asked to lend a man

‘What makes 'Dockers & Detectives' a good read is the quality of intelligent thoughtfulness that suffuses the book

but are also revealed as the origin of much of the suffering in the novel

she takes the reader with her through a vividly reimagined place of changing identity

It is for the president and no one else

’ ‘Is that a promise

where her abysmal grasp of maths is mitigated by a flair for writing

yesterday and today

A visit Khadi and her half-sister Maimouna make to the slave port of Gorée has consequences that lay bare unfinished business between West Indians and Africans