Enough of Him (Modern Plays)

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This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. As described in The Times by theatre critic Allan Radcliffe, Enough of Him was “gripping” and “unsettling”. They said, ‘Oh no, if we give this young black man freedom and don’t treat him like property, we’re going to be inundated by all these black men.

A Northumbria University lecturer, who is also an award-winning playwright and radio dramatist, is preparing for his latest play to be aired on BBC Radio 4. It is an obvious deduction that there was much at stake emotionally in the litigation, as in the English case of Somerset v. Based on a true story, Enough of Him explores the life of Joseph Knight, an African man brought to Scotland as a slave, by plantation owner John Wedderburn to serve in his Perthshire mansion.

Omar Austin brings a degree of stature and pride to the role of Joseph, with Matthew Pidgeon lording it around in a range of emotions as Sir John.

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A name that should ring through Scottish history to the present, a West African slave who freed himself in the 1770s after an initial defeat. In this Black History Month, the National Theatre of Scotland, in co-production with Pitlochry Festival Theatre, premieres Enough of Him, May Sumbwanyambe’s play about Joseph Knight, the West African slave who freed himself in the 1770s. Looking through the court records of the Knight-Wedderburn case, for example, he came across a painfully familiar argument from those opposing Knight.Enough Of Him is just one of a suite of plays Sumbwanyambe has in mind about Scotland’s forgotten history. Other award recognition includes being shortlisted for the Channel 4/Oran Mor Comedy Drama Award (2012), the Papatango New Writing Prize (2012), the Alfred Fagon Award (2011, 2012, 2015), the BBC’S Alfred Bradley Award (2011) and OffWestEnd’s Adopt a Playwright Award (2010 and 2009).

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Instead, his National Theatre Of Scotland play Enough Of Him brings together four people in an uneasy status game. It is discussed in the Oxford Companion to Black British History (2007), while Joseph Knight has gained an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Encircling on Knight, whose struggle with owner Wedderburn went on to stamp legal history when Knight won his freedom: but freedom is more complex than physical bondage. His later victory would form a foundation that the established slavery and ownership would no longer have a basis in Scots law. Assistant Professor May Sumbwanyambe, who teaches on the Creative Writing MA and English Literature and Creative Writing BA (Hons) courses at Northumbria, said: “As a country, we are educated on the part we played towards ending slavery, but we aren’t always taught about how we contributed to its existence. There we witness the distorted power relations between Wedderburn, his young wife Margaret, Knight and the servant Annie Thompson, who would become Knight’s wife.