Enough of Him (Modern Plays)

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Yes, the judge has made this great decision, but it is reckless to say you can go through all that trauma, then a judge goes, ‘You’re the winner,’ and all of a sudden everything’s just good. It is the start of May Sumbwanyambe’s uneasy drama and Joseph Knight (Omar Austin) is showing John Wedderburn (Matthew Pidgeon) the book he is reading.

There’s a reason that upon its second usage, the original piece colours have their players deliberately switched. Join us for a special screening of the National Theatre of Scotland’s performance of the award-winning play Enough of Him.Highly favoured by Wedderburn and yet still enslaved, Knight balances on the knife edge between obligation and a soul-deep yearning for freedom. It is discussed in the Oxford Companion to Black British History (2007), while Joseph Knight has gained an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In Jamaica he was sold to Sir John Wedderburn, a slave sugar plantation owner who took him to Scotland.

The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Knight lost his initial case in Perth, but based his successful appeal on the argument that Scots law did not support slavery. As described in The Times by theatre critic Allan Radcliffe, Enough of Him was “gripping” and “unsettling”. The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O'Brien's legendary rock 'n' roll musical, is back to thrill you once again at The Pavilion Theatre Glasgow in 2024!

The trauma of slavery impacts everybody, not just the person who is being enslaved,” says Sumbwanyambe. In his new drama for the National Theatre of Scotland, playwright May Sumbwanyambe tells the story of Joseph Knight – a slave who made legal history in 1778, when he persuaded a court that he should be free to leave the employment of the man who had bought him in Jamaica. A Northumbria University lecturer, who is also an award-winning playwright and radio dramatist, is preparing for his latest play to be aired on BBC Radio 4.