Adjoa Andoh’s cultural radar

In today's post I'm going to talk about an article that I read recently from The Guardian site about Adjoa Andoh. 

She is a veteran stage actor and has also worked in some very famous tv series. Some of her best work was in the series currently on Netflix, “Bridgerton” where she played Lady Danbury and in season two of “The Witcher”. She lives in south London with her husband and their three children.

In this article we can read about 7 aspects of culture that she mentioned, fiction where she talked about a book that she found beautiful and hopeful, that is called “Address book” by Neil Barlett. In this book we can see seven different characters, each travelling home where different things happen.

Nonfiction, in this aspect she talks about another book, but completely different, where he explores the different ways in which a person's trauma changes how they see the world.

Theatre, she believes that a theatre was badly needed in Brixton, now in this place they have Brixon House, a place that has two theatres, as well as studios and a cafe.

Film, she talked about a movie that she loves, called First cow. Is a film set in 1829 where there are two young friends in the middle of the gold rush their fortune depends on one of them being a great pastry chef.

Podcast, she says to us that she is not a podcast person but she also talks about one that she found interesting that's called “The amplify project” where different black writers talk to each other about their work.

In art she talks about Yinka Shonibare’s show, where she talked about the intersection between african art and western modernism.

And in photography, she showed us the work of Cephas Williams who reflects black people in the country who are just doing ordinary stuff.

I get really interested with the book that she talked about in the nonfiction book from Bessel van der Kolk, because he says that trauma affects the body as well as the mind and until you address it bodily as well as psychically, the trauma is not worked through effectively, you have to deal with it in a holistic way.