LEAVE TAKING
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Dates
23 Sep 2027 - 16 Oct 2027
Show information
40 years on from its debut, Winsome Pinnock’s Leave Taking returns in a landmark production from Bristol Old Vic’s Artistic Director Nancy Medina.
With wit and spiritual charge, Pinnock’s play turns one family’s search for belonging into a story of inheritance, rupture and repair.
In Leave Taking, the lives of a displaced Jamaican family in 1980s North London are laid bare when Enid turns to an Obeah healer for help, drawing her teenage daughters Del and Viv into a reckoning with generational difference, cultural inheritance and belonging.
Now regarded as a modern classic, Leave Taking made British theatrical history when its 1994 National Theatre staging made Pinnock the first Black British woman to have a play produced there.
Leave Taking is a moving portrait of mothers, daughters and the complicated inheritances that shape who we become.
Ages 12+
King Street
Bristol
BS1 4ED
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