Black Love (NHB Modern Plays)
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Black Love (NHB Modern Plays)

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Black Love (NHB Modern Plays)

About this book

Love freely. Love freedom. Love.

Meet Aurora and Orion: Sister and Brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam.

They look after each other in their small London flat, filled with the memories of their parents' Black Love.

When that love is threatened, they have to find their way back to each other and to what it means to love whilst Black. Using real-life stories, imagined worlds and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage, they begin a journey to confronting their own worst fears.

Chinonyerem Odimba's Black Love is an explosion of form-busting storytelling, an ode to Black music, and those real stories we rarely hear.

It was premiered by Paines Plough on a UK tour in July 2021.

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PART ONE
1.
CAST.
Black Love
BLACK NOVA.
Black Love is the day my mother opened her Black legs and let my Black father come inside her Black-framed sacredness…
CAST.
Black Love
BLACK NOVA.
Is my name
CAST.
Black Love
BLACK NOVA.
Is the look from my Black grandmother that burned itself through skin, soul and spirit
CAST.
Black Love
BLACK NOVA.
Is that red dust I remember inhaling
CAST.
Black Love
BLACK NOVA.
Is my mouth wide open waiting to be fed by Black breasts
And it hits their ears like molten fire
Burns you know
Comes faster than lava
It’s not what they want to hear
So the chase begins again
CAST.
Black Love
BLACK NOVA.
Is watching my brothers and my sister be born from that same Black place
CAST.
Black Love
BLACK NOVA.
Is the sun on my face in a place where my Blackness is not a question
CAST.
Black Love
BLACK NOVA.
Black Love is every day I look in the mirror and accept myself
CAST.
Black Love
BLACK NOVA.
Is my daughter’s name
Black Love is everything I can do to not believe in your version of me
Black Love is / Black Love is / Black Love is / Black Love is / Black Love is / Black Love is / Black Love is / Black Love is / Black Love is / Black Love is /
BLACK NOVA enters, running.
BLACK NOVA. Whew.
Chile.
This game.
This race.
What a time.
Stops. Looks up – bends down and starts panting.
We are running again.
Creating havoc again.
Playing chase and catch-up again.
And what a time!
Stands up –
And this is the game you see.
They say –
ā€˜You better start speaking up!
You better tell us the truth.
We can’t let you go until you do.’
Laughs –
It’s not what they want to hear…
And it hits their ears like molten fire – burns you know – comes faster than lava.
So the chase, the game begins again.
Laughs again –
So you will see me run again and again.
Never knowing if next time they catch me, they will ask again –
ā€˜What is your truth?
In your words…’
Beat.
My friends…
You are my friends aren’t you?
My friends…
Something happened long ago…
And now I am here.
My existence is unknown.
Unfounded.
Things colliding.
I am a result of all of those things colliding…
It’s not what they want to hear.
So the chase, the game begins again.
BLACK NOVA runs one way – then another way – then exits.
2. Home
ROO stands alone.
Candles lit.
A bunch of peonies sit prominently.
She glances across the faces staring back at her.
She is watching them as much as they are watching her.
ROO. Yoni.
Hoohoo.
Punani.
Lady V.
Alter of love.
Lady garden.
Pussy.
Vajayjay.
Vaginaland.
Woo-woo.
Love tunnel.
Whatever you want to call it.
We’re here to talk about it.
For those who don’t know my name is Aurora… Roo to you!
This is a space for you to heal from the centuries of patriarchal mess that society has created around our bodies.
Tonight we will be honouring the most sacred and softest parts of us.
Our. Pussyhole. Will. Be. Our. Temple /
ORION enters.
He is muttering –
ORION. I’m just a simple guy…
That’s all I am…
I’m a simple good guy who’s fallen in love. That’s all I am.
Beat.
Yo! I’m sorry I…
You alright everyone…
ORION waves an awkward greeting to the audience.
ROO. Or!
ORION. I’m gone you know.
ORION exits.
Beat.
Song: ā€˜Pussyhole’
ROO.
It’s my pussy so I’ll do what I like
Like a universe waiting to be explored
Just waiting to be licked open
To be adored
Just to be adored
3. Home
ORION is sitting in front of a camera set up on a tripod.
ORION. Hello.
I should just say hi… better…
Yes. Hello!
What you saying yes to you dickhead?
My name is Orion Hammond.
That’s a strong opening.
I am an actor. I think a good one.
ROO’s voice breaks into ORION’s world – she is not seen.
Song: ā€˜Pussyhole’
ROO.
Sing it loud!
This is my pussyhole /
This is my pussyhole
What?
ORION moves his chair closer to the camera –
ORION. I’m reading for the part of Joe…
I got the script fine…
Obvs.
Couldn’t put it down.
Fast enough.
Yes.
If I say yes like that one more time then I think I can slap myself for real.
ROO.
When I touch it
Magic happens
And when I look at it, it just glows /
ORION.
Like. Wow.
Lies.
So I’m really excited by this!
It’s true I kind of am.
My first big break and I’m so grateful you know… that you’ve invited me to audition… and I am really just blown away…
I’m playing that fake humble grateful bullshit. They love it.
ROO.
It’s my pussy so I’ll do what I like
Like a universe waiting to be explored
Just waiting to be licked open
To be adored
Just to be adored
ORION....

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. Original Production Details
  5. Epigraph
  6. Black Love
  7. About the Author
  8. Copyright and Performing Rights Information