cheeky little brown
By Nkenna Akunna

How do you break up with your best friend?
“When you’ve known someone basically your whole life,
Since you were five,
And you know all the same people,
And everyone you know knows you as one special Thing,
Sister-friends.”
Meet Lady, a determined sharp-tongued charmer who loves her best friend Gemma as much as she loves a late-night kebab. It’s Gemma’s birthday party. The two haven’t seen each other for six months.
cheeky little brown, by the Papatango Prize-winning playwright Nkenna Akunna (Some of Us Exist in the Future), is a failed night out, a musical, a show about heartbreak and queerness, taking place on a journey through the city Lady calls home.
With original songs, this coming-of-age story examines a friendship between two Black women, on diverging paths of self-love and acceptance.
A tiata fahodzi, Belgrade Theatre & Bristol Old Vic co-production
Original photograph by Myah Jeffers
Cast and Creative Team
Writer Nkenna Akunna
Director Chinonyerem Odimba
Performer Tiajna Amayo
Designer Aldo Vazquez
Lighting Designer Jodie Underwood
Sound Designer Esther Kehinde Ajayi
Music Arrangement & Production Rafay Rashid & Dennis Ryan
Vocal Coach Abdul Shyllon
Casting Director Heather Basten CDG
Producer Shaelee Rooke
Stage Manager Madeleine Coward
Touring Stage Manager Oliver de Rohan
Production Manager Jo Woodcock
PR Diana Whitehead Original Poster Photography Myah Jeffers
Illustration Parys Gardener
Rehearsal Photography Rebecca Need-Menear
Production Photography Craig Fuller
Rehearsal and Production Trailer Camilla Adams
BSL Interpreters Sherrie Eugene-Hart
Tickets
Thursday 21st September – Saturday 14th October
Show times 8pm
Accessible performances - BSL interpreted show on October 7th
Tuesday 24th October- Saturday 28th October
Showtimes 7:45pm. Sat matinee: 2:15pm
Accessible performances - BSL interpreted show on October 27th
Friday 20th & Saturday 21st October
Showtimes 8pm Sat matinee 2:30pm
Monday 30th October - Friday 3rd November
Showtimes 8pm Sat matinee 2.30pm
Accessible performances - BSL interpreted show on November 2nd & Captioned November 3rd

.png)
