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It is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. We are at a slave castle in Ghana. Samuel is our tour guide. It''s his job to give tourists a really, really authentic experience of the castle''s dark history, and to do it all with a smile. Thank you, Samuel!

The tourists are Samuel''s guests, and they''re on a journey of self-discovery. But they''re here, standing on soil, blood and bones, asking for a selfie. They want to buy trinkets from the gift shop. Samuel would never want to hurt the tourists. And they would never want to hurt him.

Rhianna Ilube''sSamuel Takes a Break? in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Toursis a genre-blending play about colonialism, identity and the attempt to preserve the past. It was shortlisted for the Women''s Prize for Playwriting and the Verity Bargate Award, and was a finalist for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It premiered at The Yard Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike.

Samuel Takes a Break

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      Publisher Nick Hern Books
      Published 1/15/2024
      ISBN-13 9781839043185
      978-1839043185
      ISBN-10 1839043180
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      Book Synopsis

      It is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. We are at a slave castle in Ghana. Samuel is our tour guide. It''s his job to give tourists a really, really authentic experience of the castle''s dark history, and to do it all with a smile. Thank you, Samuel!

      The tourists are Samuel''s guests, and they''re on a journey of self-discovery. But they''re here, standing on soil, blood and bones, asking for a selfie. They want to buy trinkets from the gift shop. Samuel would never want to hurt the tourists. And they would never want to hurt him.

      Rhianna Ilube''sSamuel Takes a Break? in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Toursis a genre-blending play about colonialism, identity and the attempt to preserve the past. It was shortlisted for the Women''s Prize for Playwriting and the Verity Bargate Award, and was a finalist for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It premiered at The Yard Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike.

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