Identity Crisis Theatre & Performing Arts


Identity Crisis One woman show written and performed by Phina Oruche Nine Characters, Black , White, Old, Young, Male, Female, One Woman


Identity Crisis

One woman show written and performed by Phina Oruche

Nine Characters, Black , White, Old, Young, Male, Female, One Woman

Identity crisis a psychiatry definition;- "a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person's sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society."


Phina Oruche is having an Identity Crisis
Following highly successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016, International Slavery Museum Liverpool, and The Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol, Identity Crisis by Phina Oruche (ITV’s Footballers’ Wives, Channel 4’s Hollyoaks) transfers to London’s Ovalhouse. This hilariously funny one-woman show explores identity struggles that are common to us all.
The play was born out of a real life story of the sudden death of Oruche’s 19-year-old niece in her home in 2011 from a brain aneurism. This distressing time was followed by a series of racial and international incidents happening throughout the world and in Oruche’s life. Identity Crisis helped her turn a mess into a message.
Identity Crisis focuses on nine characters all of whom are having their own identity crises; they are black, white, old, young, male and female. The audience are taken through sixty images of Oruche when she worked in the world of fashion, providing an illuminating exposition of life on the catwalk. Starting with the media's telling of when tragedy struck, this laugh-out-loud show examines Oruche's own observations on others conceptions of black people in the media via her life as she worked as a fashion model, actress, radio presenter and then writer.
Through its simple staging, the cast is brought to life; from Amy Tan, a working-class white girl with a Scouse brow and a taste for spray tans and black lads, to Antonio de Silva, a football crazy Italian living in LA who is missing his mum.
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Phina Oruche comments, I created Identity Crisis for two reasons. My life stopped when tragedy struck and I plunged into a deep, dark, interminable grief. The range of emotions and the questions I posed about my life and its value at times made me feel like I was in a crisis. This show has given me the freedom to play characters I would never get cast as. All my characters are vulnerable, flawed, and struggling with who they are. Identity Crisis has proved cathartic to me and has restored my joy and faith in humanity.

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Date(s)9 - 13 May 2017
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VenueOvalhouse
Address52-54 Kennington Oval, London, Greater London,
SE115SW

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Event Details

Date9 - 13 May 2017
Time(s)7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
Cost14
VenueOvalhouse
52-54 Kennington Oval
London
Greater London
SE115SW
Phone020 7582 7680
CategoryTheatre & Performing Arts


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