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Serving Elizabeth
by Marcia Johnson
In the script of history, who gets to tell the story?
In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a restaurant proprietor, is hired to cater the impending visit of Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. In 2015, another story unfolds in London, England, where a young Kenyan-born Canadian, Tia, is working as an intern on a TV drama series about the British royal family – while also pursuing a writing project of her own. While seemingly only coincidentally connected, a surprising twist reveals a deeper relationship between the two narratives. An ingenious contemporary drama that keeps us guessing as it explores issues of colonialism, nationalism and the question of who gets to have a voice.
“Serving Elizabeth is a gem” (NOW Magazine)