Serving Elizabeth
By: Marcia Johnson
Publisher: Scirocco Drama, an imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc.
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781927922620
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Travel; Drama; Cooks; Imperialism; Motion pictures; Production and direction
Description: "Serving Elizabeth begins in Kenya in 1952, during the fateful royal visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mercy, a restaurant owner, is approached to cook for the royal couple. Though she could use the money, she is a staunch anti- monarchist. She vows to stick to her principles, but her daughter Faith keeps trying to convince her to take the job. In London in 2015, in the production offices of a series about Queen Elizabeth, a Kenyan-Canadian film student, Tia, serves as an intern on the project. It&#x2019;s a perfect fit for her as she has been a fan of princesses her whole life. But when she reads the Kenya episode, she starts to understand that fairy tales and real life are very different things. Serving Elizabeth is a funny, fresh, and topical play about colonialism, monarchy, and who is serving whom--or what."--
Notes: A play.