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14 \u2013 15 November 2025<\/p>\n
Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee has arrived at a silent retreat, but this story isn\u2019t your average \u2018Eat Pray Love\u2019 moment. The Legends Of Them\u00a0 is an emotive and electrifying exploration of the scenes that carved out Sutara Gayle\u2019s path, and the legends that guided her.<\/p>\n
Her story is a true one, and as an audience we\u2019re thrown unapologetically straight into her most charged memories: from her rise to glory accompanied by the thumping bass of reggae Bass is my sanctuary\u2026my escape, to her mother\u2019s acceptance of her sexuality. Her writing powerfully utilizes the frame of meditation to reflect the jagged and high-octane intrusion of memories that replay in our minds when we sit and silently contemplate our past.<\/p>\n
The Legends Of Them is almost a lyrical stream of consciousness, seamlessly flowing through scenes that have shaped Lorna\u2019s life. Sometimes perhaps too seamlessly at the beginning, as I felt I struggled a little to keep up. But then that\u2019s memories for you: chaotic, distorted and visceral.<\/p>\n
As we\u2019re hurtled through her life, the impeccable sound design, by Elena Pe\u00f1a, becomes key in signposting where we are; whether it\u2019s the distant clang of cell doors in a Brixton prison or the bleat of a sheep as she\u2019s driven to the provincial Catholic school in Somerset.<\/p>\n
But what really gives this play its narrative draw is our protagonist as she effortlessly morphs into multiple characters: her mother, her teacher, even her abuser, whilst fleshing out a sympathetic character that is both hardened to the world but can still laugh about her place in it:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy have I brought high heels to a yoga retreat\u2026AND a ghetto blaster?\u201d <\/p>\n
The legends that have guided Sutara Gayle\/Lorna Gee are no secret, they are recounted like a mantra at the beginning of the piece. But the revelation that Cherry Groce, who was shot and disabled by police back in 1985 (sparking the Brixton riots) was Lorna\u2019s own sister really brings history to life \u2013 suddenly these legends feel very close to home.<\/p>\n
Finishing the piece on real archival footage of Sutara Gayle burning her dreadlocks at her own retreat feels apt as an ending. We\u2019ve journeyed through the legends of Queen Nanny, Lorna\u2019s mother, her brother Mooji and sister Cherry Groce, and circled back to Sutara herself<\/p>\n
This story is about the legends that made the Reggae legend Lorna Gee \u2013 but ultimately, it\u2019s her journey to discovering herself:<\/p>\n
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u00a0 Beth Teverson,\u00a0 15 November 2025<\/p>\n
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