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Nitro & The Albany present the World Premiere of
Desert Boy
by Mojisola Adebeyo
They say your life flashed in front of you before you die. But supposing it's not just your life. Supposing it's someone else's...
Soldier Boy's in trouble. Minding his own on the streets of South London, he collides with the wrong crowd. Just one more hoody with a knife in his belly, he lies crying for his mother on a riverbank. But his cries are heard by the long-dead Desert Man, from Mali 300 years ago...
This is the start of an amazing journey, from the chaos and crime of London streets to the stench of slave ships on the open seas and the chains of cotton plantations in America's Deep South. Man and boy share the absurdity and brutality of their history, in order to shape their future.
Shot with killer voices, singing across the ages from Mali to hip hop, from slave songs to rap, Desert Boy is a funny, fantastic and provoking new musical epic.