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British Actor Idris Elba has collaborated with Kwame-Armah to write a show called Tree. Tree will be part of the 2019 Manchester International Festival and will feature music, dance and film.
Tree is a stage show about life in South Africa after Nelson Mandela and will premiere in November in Manchester.
Elba had starred in Long Walk to Freedom a film depicting some aspects of Mandela’s life in which he had played Mandela.
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The show, Tree will incorporate music, dance and film and will be aired in the 2019 Manchester International Festival.
Elba said: “For me, an interesting part of the process is looking at the next part of the story; the new universe that sprung up after Mandela.”
The show depicts all the emotion and experience of a post-Mandela time.
Although Idris Elba will not be performing in the show, the lineup for the show include Skepta and Yoko Ono.
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