Following the success of its debut at the Milton Keynes Theatre, A Slave’s Story, a play produced by The Arts Collective, has been given a unique opportunity to perform before a private audience in the presence of the Civil Rights Activist, Reverend Jesse Jackson.  The play will then be showcased to the general public at The Peepul Centre, Leicester on Friday 24th August.

A Slave’s Story’ follows the lives of eight generations of one family whose tale of survival and freedom is passionately passed from mother to daughter beginning in African Tribelands in 1781 until it reaches modern metropolitan Britain in 2007. Ultimately a tale of redemption, ‘A Slave’s Story’ offers a night of poetry, music, dance and drama.

The historic debut of the play at the renowned Milton Keynes Theatre was not only being the first black British production to be staged there, but totally sold out on its one-night only performance to  the surprise of many of its critics.  The performance at Milton Keynes was so popular that the play will make its London debut on Sunday 15th September at The Broadway Theatre, Lewisham – home to many groundbreaking ethnic productions.

Yaw Asiyama, writer and producer of A Slave’s Story, explains, "I felt driven to write this play. It had been living in my heart and soul for a while... the emotional reaction of all the players and participants when we took the play to small local theatres made me aware of what we had. It became almost compulsory we perform it again on a bigger scale so that more people could hear our story.”

A Slave’s Story proposes to tour venues in historic slave ports around the UK such as Hull, Bristol and Liverpool and has been given an opportunity to visit Ghana in October as a part of an education tour and to celebrate Ghana’s 50th Independence Anniversary.