Enough of Him (Modern Plays)

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A Northumbria University graduate, and founder of Newcastle’s Alphabetti Theatre, has been voted as one of the 100 most influential people within the UK theatre and performing arts industry over the last year. Composer John Pfumojena’s music draws upon the sounds of African percussion, most notably in a memorable arrangement of the famous Scottish folk song, The Parting Glass. In this Black History Month, Pitlochry Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland and Sumbwanyambe seek to remind audiences that as we arrive back at the present, blinking from the houselights, in this contemporary world of opportunity and affluence, we fail to recognise the ramifications of the street names we traverse, and fail once more to grasp that freedom is obtained by more than the erasure of bondage. Knight—played with tremendous dignity, humour and controlled anguish by Omar Austin—lives with that trauma.

He confesses to his wife—played with subtlety by Rachael-Rose McLaren—that he cannot have a healthy sexual life due to the hideously violent sadism of his relations with black slave women in the Caribbean colony. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Enough Of Him is just one of a suite of plays Sumbwanyambe has in mind about Scotland’s forgotten history. Registered Office: Cumbernauld Theatre Trust Ltd, Lanternhouse, South Kildrum Ring Road, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, G67 2UF.

The trauma of slavery impacts everybody, not just the person who is being enslaved,” says Sumbwanyambe. From the latest theatre events and live music performances to local activities and fantastic attractions, we keep you up to date daily!

Assistant Professor in Humanities at Northumbria University and award-winning playwright, May Sumbwanyambe, has won recognition from the UK Theatre Awards for his latest production Enough of Him. Nicola is joined by the winner of the Scottish Album of the Year Award Fergus McCreadie and podcaster and broadcaster Halina Rifai, who discuss the place the Award has in the Scottish music scene, in supporting emerging artists and more diverse talent. It is an obvious deduction that there was much at stake emotionally in the litigation, as in the English case of Somerset v.After the brutal things they would have been exposed to, how did they then, ten years later, come back to ‘civilised life’ and not be impacted by that? It is important that this story of Joseph Knight is told, and the realisation of Scotland’s attitude to slavery in the 18th Century is quite uplifting. Flatmates is the brand new comedy sitcom, which hilariously captures the lives of five unique roommates, being performed live in Glasgow this February! If you take the court documents at face value, he genuinely felt he was behaving in a compassionate way. The National Theatre of Scotland makes its debut at Pitlochry Festival Theatre with a highly appropriate piece of historical drama.

Following an initial defeat in a lower court, Knight won his appeal at the Sheriff Court in Perth, which established that slavery had no basis in Scots law. Cumbernauld Theatre Trust is s upported by Creative Scotland, North Lanarkshire Council and the Weston Culture Fund. The action of May Sumbwanyambe’s play, Enough of Him, is no less powerful or discomfiting for its intimate focus, taking place almost entirely on Wedderburn’s (Matthew Pidgeon) Ballindean estate in the early-to-mid 1770s. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback. In these moments, such flickers of emotion communicate more than language, though Sumbwanyambe’s writing certainly doesn’t leave the latter to chance.

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Based on a true story, Enough of Him explores the life of Joseph Knight, an African man enslaved by plantation owner Sir John Wedderburn and brought to Scotland to serve in his Perthshire mansion. Although set in Scotland, memories of the hell on Earth that was the slave colony in Jamaica are ever present in Knight and Wedderburn’s minds.

And though tremendous amounts are conveyed with Pidgeon’s fragile, yet powerfully repulsive presence, John Pfumojena’s design makes full use of its minimalism; there is no escape for those finding despair. Nicola is in conversation with playwright May Sumbwanyambe and actor Omar Austin, hearing about new National Theatre of Scotland production Enough of Him, about Joseph Knight, the first man to win his freedom in a Scottish Court of law.