Photos: In Rehearsal for DRUM At the Edinburgh Fringe

Our Day are set to make waves at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their powerful play DRUM - which will be taking over Underbelly Cowgate’s Iron Belly stage from 1st to 25th August at 2:10pm. Tickets are on sale now. See photos from inside rehearsal.

Inspired by real events, this warm, joyful and poignant play fuses storytelling, music and dance; capturing a unique snapshot of the swinging sixties. DRUM premiered with a critically acclaimed sold-out run at the Omnibus Theatre in 2022 and is an award-winning play, paying homage to t two icons in Ghanaian diaspora, and British African history; photographer James Barnor and BBC's former radio broadcaster Mike Eghan – exploring what it means to exist and excel in a home away from home.

DRUM showcases a historical reimagination of two Ghanaian men who explore a series of hard-hitting conversations about dual-identity, tackling the challenge of what it means to preserve your cultural integrity whilst surviving a new world of both opportunity and compromise. 

Through song, dance and photography the story sheds a unique light on some of the internal complexities of duality for African Diasporic communities in the 60s through the lens of Barnor and Eghan.

Photo Credit: Esther-Rennae Walker

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