So Many Reasons

📝Racheal Ofori.
📍Camden People’s Theatre & UK Tour.
🗓January 2018.

Director: Zoe Lafferty
Set Designer: Tanya Stephenson
Lighting Designer: Tanya Stephenson
Producer: Fuel Theatre

_{"My Mum said to me

‘if you ever have children, don’t have girls.

They give you too much of a headache.’

So Many Reasons is a story about the unique influence our mothers have on how we understand the world, from the perspective of a first generation British Ghanaian woman. Exploring cultural and generational shifts, religion and sexuality, this bold new show asks what happens when we realise mums don’t always know best."}

For this one-woman show written and performed by Racheal Ofori, I worked with Racheal and director Zoe Lafferty to build a sense of the world surrounding Melissa, the protagonist, and emphasise the pressures of religion, sexuality and social media being placed onto Melissa.