Kings…come home

National Black Theatre presents the U.S. premiere of an original theater piece, directed by the Dutch team of Ira Kip and Winston “Winnie” Bergwijn, that explores the reclamation of Black identity in the shadows of mass migration, racism, colonialism and war. The text by Munganyende, Veronique Efomi and Smita James is in English, peppered with other languages (Papiamentu, Tigrinya, Sranantongo, Kikongo, Kimbundu, Lingala, Portuguese and Dutch). It is performed by its original Netherlands company: Saron Tesfahuney, Revé Terborg, Rubiën Vyent, Ayesha Jordan, Melvin Aroma, Daniel Pando and Giovanni Pisas. (The 2024 Dutch tour kicked off, appropriately enough, in Haarlem.)