Terror Management Theory by William Nyerere Plastow at Talawa Firsts 2021

William Nyerere Plastow is a Manchester based, playwright, screenwriter and film maker. He has shared a stage speaking against police brutality with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Colors and directed a documentary on failings in maternity care which was deemed so shocking it was suppressed by the Kenyan Ministry of Health.

As a playwright, William is interested in stories which explore big social, political and moral questions, but without offering any easy answers. He is currently working on a project set in the anti-Mau Mau concentration camps of 1950s Kenya.

We're delighted to be working with William as part of Talawa Firsts 2021. Terror Management Theory gripped us from the start; the story of a middle class dinner party set within a Black household is too rarely seen. With Terror Management Theory we get to see it at last, and in ways that twist, turn and surprise too.

The Terror Management Company

Writer: Will Nyerere
Director: Ebenezer Bamgboye

Cast:
Alisha Bailey
Ash Hunter
Okorie Chukwu
Hannah Morrish

Stage Managers

Stage Manager: Kevanna Etten

Assistant Stage Manager: Waverley Moran

Producers:

Ifrah Ismail + David Gilbert + Chuchu Nwagu