Tag: love

A City Girl’s Post-Breakup Recovery Manual – by Vuyokazi Ngemntu

She’ll wrap her arms around you when her inquiry into your well-being causes your spine to collapse. Sensing your discomfort, she will sit beside you quietly, covered in your musty duvet. A movie will watch the two of you until Uber Eats arrives. You will take a few pizza bites for her sake and find that it struggles to push past the permanent lump in your throat. Too numb to protest, you’ll get into the bath she runs you and sit there sobbing while she changes your linen.

Time is Different in Toronto – Chidera Udochukwu-Nduka

I remembered Nigeria in snatches; roofs of houses overlapping each other, lying like broken china in the sun in cities that  suffer from insomnia. Storey buildings where churches and plazas are attached like appendages with speakers raised to alarming decibels vying for the right to make you deaf. Noise was a way of life.

LAMDA’s production of James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner” interrogates Christian charity – Toni Kan

he entire cast made up of students of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art  supported by staff members and industry experts deserves applause for their interpretation of the text and their delivery, American accent and all. The stage design which collapses the three acts into one seamless whole is also deserving of commendation as does Nicholai La Barrie who directed the play.