Rehearsed Reading:
Maud Sulter ‘Service to Empire’

Best known as an artist and poet, Sulter wrote Service to Empire, published with her imprint A19 in 2002. In this play she reimagines the relationship between the parents of Jerry Rawlings: his father was a Scot, his mother Ghanaian. Exploring long-lasting colonial legacies across two continents, Sulter considered her play as providing ‘an incisive observation of the explosive reverberations’ of their affair and its impact on Ghana’s former President (in office 1979-2002). Since the play was written 20 years ago, it has never been performed. 


Director: Adura Onashile
Abridged: Adura Onashile
Cinematographer: Basharat Khan
Editor: Basharat Khan
Sound Engineer: Scott Walker
Sound Design/Music: Claudia Vasiliu
Costume Design: Sam Wood/ Palimpsest
Co-curated: Mother Tongue


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