Princess & The Hustler
by Chinonyerem Odimba
Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba
Princess & The Hustler is a play about the world of a 10-year old girl and her family living in 1960s Bristol.
A picture of everyday family life set against the backdrop of the Bristol bus boycott, this heart-warming play brings a previously untold, yet significant, chapter in Black British history into the spotlight.
This play presents opportunities to explore wider societal and political issues and more personal themes of identity and pursuing dreams and aspirations.
Princess, in all her innocence and joy, searches for her sense of beauty as she dreams of winning the Weston-super-Mare beauty contest.
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'Mi ‘ave dreams too Wendell. Small, quiet dreams but dem still alive in ‘ere…. And every day, mawning and night mi fall on my knees and pray that dis country Hingland truly see de possibilities of our children… dat dem juss see dat…'
Princess & The Hustler excerpt, Mavis, page 102
© Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba. Nick Hern Books, 2019.
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