"This play is a work about trying to find a home that you’ve left, and to which you cannot return. And with Zimbabwe and other African nations in the midst of intense strife, there will be more like Darling, who leave in search of stability."
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"The clarity of the storytelling enables the six actors in Monique Touko’s supple production to fluently switch race, age and gender, with their accents and body language becoming ever more homogenised and American."
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“ ‘We Need New Names’ is a wonderful look at the idea of belonging and is equally as heart-breaking as it is uplifting...This play feels exactly like the kind of story that should be told across all of our theatres and I feel extremely privileged to have been able to see NoViolet Bulawayo’s deeply moving and funny story come to life on the stage.”
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