Serving Elizabeth /
"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 principl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Winnipeg, MB, Canada :
Scirocco Drama, an imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc.,
2020.
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| Summary: | "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'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."-- |
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| Item Description: | A play. |
| Physical Description: | 135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781927922620 1927922623 |