theatre

Cultivate: The Other Half

At Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London · 1 performance from Wed 21 Oct to Wed 21 Oct.

Exploring themes of motherhood, the cost of immigration and the invisible labour of family care, The Other Half is one woman's attempt to break the cycle. Or at the very least, bend it. The Other Half is a story about Lola, a British-Nigerian woman, who has never told her husband Chris, the truth about her older sister Toyin. When Lola's mother dies, she travels to Nigeria to meet the sister she has not seen in thirty years, a disabled woman left behind when the family emigrated and whom Lola allowed Chris to believe was dead. Her decision to make it right has far-reaching consequences for the