Say My Name (Now Showing)
Posted by Kofi Agyemang on Jul 23rd, 2010 and filed under Sexuality. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
Say My Name is a contemporary Black British gay love story. Set amidst a gritty urban backdrop of ‘street’ reality, the story kicks off when ‘rude-bwoy,’ Ricky, ignores his undercover lover, Chris, while hanging ‘on road’ with his crew because he is afraid of being ‘outed.’
This single act of betrayal, hurts, humiliates and infuriates his lover Chris, triggering a raging, brutally explicit, and frank row, in which conflicting issues about masculinity, sexuality, race, self-definition and love are confronted. With their relationship in the balance, Ricky is forced to confront his deepest, darkest, feelings. “To be or not to be….OUT!” That is the question.
Influenced in no small part by the 1990′s production of Boy with Beer published in Black Plays: 3, Say My Name is a tale of love in its purest sense, and tells the story of developing self-love and what must be sacrificed in order to achieve the ultimate state of being between men who love men.
Chris, through his own trials and suffering, has managed to reconcile himself with his racial and sexual identity, believing that he has found the answer in coming out to family and friends. But does Ricky love him enough to break taboo and go against community, tradition and the laws of the street?
Say My Name with actors Ayo Fawole (L) as Ricky, and Nahum Bromfield (R) as Chris.
Say My Name is the first in a series of short, stand-alone films, that together make up a series of stories in the drama between Ricky, Chris, and their family and friends, as boy meets boy, boy loses boy, and boy gets boy back.
Stay tuned in to the drama, it gets much more complex as mums, dads, friends and girlfriends get in on the act, and all is revealed in the end.
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