Serving Elizabeth

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. Is there a deeper connection between these two seemingly disparate worlds? 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)

"I was inspired to write this play to give a voice to under-represented and marginalized people in popular culture. Theatre can present the stories that need to be heard. When audiences are caught up in a story they can empathize with characters with whom they may have more in common than they thought."- Marcia Johnson

Ann Says: "I was obsessed with The Crown when it aired. When I saw this play at Stratford, I was fascinated with how thoughtfully it sets the story of a young Kenyan-Canadian intern working on a particular episode alongside the story of a Kenyan cook and her family in 1952."