The streets of Peckham are home in Bola Agbaje’s 2007 play, which recently became a GCSE set text. This new production directed by Monique Touko has a fresh and boisterous energy even if the script never properly digs into its themes of identity.
The central relationship is between teenage Yemi (Jerome Scott) and his Yoruba-speaking brother, Ikudayisi (Dalumuzi Moyo), who has come to live in London after being brought up in Nigeria. Over the course of one day, their differences expand so much that they can barely find a language in which to communicate.
