It was a bit of a surprise for the whole audience in Pleasance Green to be up on their feet learning how to Candy (a dance!) by the end of the show – but by then they were all completely under the spell of Na Keisha Pebody.
The members of the packed crowd were actually trying their best to impress her, or her character Chardaye, who had rapped, sung and danced her way through the previous hour of non-stop entertainment.
This is a great feel good show so if you are weary of shows with a world changing message this is for you – except there is also quite naturally a word or two about family dynamics and racism. Chardaye laments that it would be as meaningless to tell a racist they are racist as to tell a “blind person to start seein’ “.
Na-Keisha wrote the script and she performs in the solo show as a mixed race 17 year-old Charadaye who falls foul of “girl issues” and makes a move to live with an auntie in Peckham Rye. It is laugh out loud funny in parts, a bit sad in others, but her word perfect delivery is simply masterful.
And really her dead dad did look a bit like Bob Marley. One Love…
Directed by: Mya Onwugbonu
Photo Lukasz Izdebski
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