Iconic Pan African Congress 80 years on in Liberation

Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for its collaboration with the Manchester International Festival's on the production Liberation (June 27-July 26).

In 1945 the fifth Pan-African Congress took place in Manchester, an iconic event with a global impact on Africa’s future and freedom. Eighty years after the event, Ntombizodwa Nyoni’s play brings the people of the Congress into focus.

The ensemble cast includes: Leonie Elliott (Call The Midwife, Small Island) as Jamaican activist Alma la Badie; Eric Kofi Abrefa (Julie, National Theatre) as Kwame Nkrumah, the man who would go on to be the first President of Ghana. Activist Amy Ashwood-Garvey is played by Pamela Nomvete (To Kill A Mockingbird) and journalist and author George Padmore is played by Eamonn Walker (Chicago Fire).

The cast also includes: Rudolphe Mdlongwa, Tonderai Munyevu, Tachia Newall, Joshua Roberts-Mensah, Bex Smith and Nicola Stephenson.

The director will be Monique Touko, alongside Mercury prize-winning Ezra Collective’s Ife Ogunjobi, and movement director Kloe Dean.

More info and tickets here