Discussion: Black Oral Histories in the North with Sweet Mother reading

Live on our YouTube channel here from 6:30pm 
Online panel discussion: "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." Marcus Garvey
Free | 1 hour

Watch Maria Paul, the creator of Sweet Mother, in discussion with Marj Morgan, creator and host of #WeTalk Liverpool Podcast Project and Michelle Charters (Kuumba Imani, L8 Unseen) on the importance of Black Oral History in the North. This discussion is hosted by Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse New Works Associate Frank Peschier whose PhD in staging Liverpool identity drew from National Life Stories at The British Library. This will be streamed live on the Everyman & Playhouse theatres YouTube channel.

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Then available to watch from 7:30pm
Sweet Mother reading 

Free | approx 1 hour 

To celebrate BHM, a reading of Maria Paul's verbatim play Sweet Mother, recorded at the Everyman theatre during lockdown, will be free to watch on the Everyman & Playhouse theatres YouTube channel from Fri 30 Oct until Mon 2 Nov. 

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Sweet Mother documents the experiences of three real-life white women: Josie (Amanda George-Higgins), Vera (Margaret Connell) and Joan (Lisa McMahon) who married Black men and brought up their families in L8. Taking us from the 1960s up to the 1981 riots, the play mixes recordings of the real women with verbatim performance to shine a light on the racism and prejudice these women and their families have and continue to face.

Simultaneously, Sweet Mother is a celebration of L8's resilience, community, family and love. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the waves of Black Lives Matter, Sweet Mother demonstrated how the personal is political in the truest form.

Sweet Mother was first performed at the Royal Court Studio in March 2020 and most recently at the Bombed Out Church as part of the Liverpool Theatre Festival. This reading was recorded by Alex Stevenson at The Everyman, October 2020

These events are free in celebration of Black History Month.