Lancaster Litfest: Bernadine Evaristo - Lancaster Maritime Museum

Lancaster Litfest: Bernadine Evaristo - Lancaster Maritime Museum in The Long Room, Friday 10 October, 7.30pm

Bernadine Evaristo will be reading from her highly acclaimed new work ‘Blonde Roots’. Satirical and dazzling, Blonde Roots is an imaginative reversal of the slave trade, in which the Africans are the masters and the Europeans are the slaves. Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute Doris is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World. When she finally arrives on a strange tropical island, Doris discovers that she is, in fact, a pig-ugly savage with a brain the size of a pea, whose only purpose in life is to please her mistress. While experiencing the hardships of life in the sugarcane fields, she dreams of escape, of finding those she has loved and lost, and of returning home to her motherland, England…

Cost: £7.50 (6 concessions) with £4 off ‘Blonde Roots’ if bought on the night. Glass of wine included.

Tickets from the Dukes Theatre Box Office, 0845 344 0642 tickets@dukes-lancaster.org textphone: 01524 380062

Venue

Lancaster Maritime Museum, Lancaster

Dates

Lancaster Litfest: Bernadine Evaristo 10 Oct 2008

Tickets Information

Road Directions

Leave the M6 at jct 33 or 34 and follow signs for Lancaster city centre. Follow the signs for the A6 north from the city centre and turn left in St George's Quay just before reaching the bus station. Lancaster Maritime Museum is located about half a mile along the quayside.

Public Transport Directions

Lancaster Maritime Museum is a short walk from city centre.