22 January - 14 February 2009

‘An adrenaline-fuelled performance. The actor's glorious smile and his flair for turning personal struggle into stand-up and poetry is effortlessly entertaining.’ The Guardian

If everything you thought about race is wrong, and everyone else is right, are you the wrong race?
 
The child of an an unlikely  liason between  Lenny Bruce and Lenny Henry poet, playwright, performer and  broadcaster  Lemn Sissay grew up in care in the lilliputian villages of Lancashire and never knew a Black person until his late teens.
 
Now Lemn makes his first foray into the world of stand up as he opens “The Richard Pryor Centre for Comedy” a brand new venue. He presents the most serious of subjects through the eyeglass of laughter, to make us look at our world anew.
 
The Southbank Centre's artist in residence, his work includes Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist, Rebel Without Applause and his plays Chaos By Design, Storm, and Something Dark.

Commissioned by the Lyric Hammersmith.