Put Out The Light

Put Out the Light is a play set in Dublin about a tragic relationship between an African immigrant and an Irish woman. Kenneth Tamunda came to Ireland from Nairobi and initially things went well for him. After he is detained and breathalysed by a corrupt Garda on the way home form a late night party, his life begins to spiral out of control. He battles against his own demons and tries to make sense of the evil he finds in his world. The play is about the insidious and corrosive effects of racism, but also about the difficulty of untangling truth from false perceptions. Kenneth descends into a hell that could be partly of his own making and partly a response to intolerable pressure, in a culture that he once thought he understood. He does desperate things because desperate things are done to him. This is a play about love, jealousy, deceit and the tragic frailty of love.

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