B.A.S.H., June 2000

Stevenage Festival 2000

Stevenage Festival 2000 is a Stevenage Arts Guild Enterprise and has been sponsored by Stevenage Borough Council, Stevenage Community Trust, The Comet and Herald Newspapers, ABB Automations Ltd, Alta Image, John Lewis, Glaxo Wellcome and the Millennium Festival.

Kadoma Players with RIMUKA Performing Arts. Producer Howard Cottrell. Sponsored by Stevenage Community Trust,

B.A.S.H. is short for British-Africa Self Help programme. A group of actors, musicians , singers and dancers from KADOMA (Stevenage’s link town in Zimbabwe) bring B.A.S.H. as a multi-cultural production to celebrate the millennium. With the very apt contemporary theme of Development Aid, this play throws into sharp relief the differences between European and African perceptions – which will prevail and will the arrival of a Very Important Guest resolve the problem?

This is a play of biting sardonic humour interlaced with highly entertaining African music, song and dance and features performers from RIMULKA performing arts group making a very welcome and long anticipated return visit to Stevenage.