Royal Court
Theatre
Local, Peckham
9 June
Sleeping it off in London,
city of hangovers and handbags,
kit kats and booze.
Nigeria is louder, brighter, full of shouts
and prayers, fighting and dancing,
fly-blown market sellers crying their wares.
In both, displacement is a wrack
that wrenches love and family apart,
scores off ambition, questions our sense of right;
in both, a niggling unrest and accusation
darkens our belief in nationality,
fires us up and leaves us with a fight.
Belong will play at Theatre Local, Peckham, until 23 June
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