Edinburgh International Festival: as british as a watermelon
Join queer Zimbabwean performer mandla rae for this colourful and personal exploration of childhood migration memories.
About Edinburgh International Festival: as british as a watermelon
‘My name is mandla.
It means power.
I gave it to myself.’
Zimbabwean writer and performer mandla rae has a selective memory and is scrambling to piece together a life mostly forgotten in the name of survival. Through the exploration of mandla’s fragmented LGBTQ asylum and childhood migration memories, as british as a watermelon asks powerful questions about belonging, trauma and forgiveness.
Told through an unflinching narrative, weaving poetry and storytelling together with destruction and colourful chaos, you are invited to join mandla’s rise from the dead and reclamation of misplaced power.
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