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. 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)

"I was inspired to write this play to give a voice to under-represnted 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."