This sentence, used on the publicity, is an apt description of this play. White Baptist Abba Fan is written and performed by Cheetham and tells her story.
Dialogue is interspersed with snippets of opera, accompanied by piano, cello, viola and clarinet.
Cheetham is now an acclaimed opera singer and has performed professionally since the early 1990s. She was taken from her mother as an infant and brought up in a white middle-class Baptist family. Cheetham describes her childhood as one of growing up the only black person she knew. Conversations she had in early childhood with her mother are recounted. She was told that her mother had abandoned her as a baby, leaving her in a field.