Watch Online - Notes on Grief

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Date
15 - 18 Jul 2021
Tickets
Video On Demand will only be available from 3pm Thursday 15 July to 23:59pm Sunday 18 July
Tickets for this online event are no longer available
  • A captioned version will be available from Thursday 15 July to 23.59pm Sunday 18 July

Recommended 12+
Running time: 90 minutes approx.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s powerful reflection on family, love and loss journeys from page to stage in Rae McKen’s new production.

I last saw my father in person on March 5th, just before the coronavirus changed the world.

On Wednesday 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died in Nigeria. Three months later, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the acclaimed author of Half a Yellow Sun and Americanah, published a beautiful tribute to the father she loved ‘so much, so fiercely, so tenderly’, a poignant meditation on the meaning, impact and nature of grief, in the New Yorker. Out of that essay grew a book, which was published in May 2021.

Director Rae McKen takes Adichie’s words and transfers them to the stage in this new production, starring Michelle Asante, Uche Abuah, and Itoya Osagiede, Notes on Grief a space for those who have experienced loss to gather and reflect, and a powerful and timely MIF21 world premiere.

Credits

Image credit: Manny Jefferson

Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival.

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