| Description | Produced with the Strange Fruit Theatre Company, an anti-racist campaigning company based in Nottingham. This was a multi-media solo performance by Paul Moore. The play's hero is named after Louie Jordan, an African American who provided a bridge between big band music and Rythm and Blues and is cited by many as one of the founders of 'Rock 'n' Roll music.
The play was developed by Moore as a fictionalised account of his own father's experiences as a Jamaican immigrant to Nottingham in the 1950s and the hardening attitudes within white and black communities over time. The growing resistance of second generation black people to racism is examined. |