The Clinic

I've given up on fighting for change. That's a strange, imperfect illusion that allowed confusion to reign in my life. I took a knife to its neck and sliced it open. When a passionate activist, Wunmi, is invited into a middle-class Black family's home, a fire is lit. The family members have always seen themselves as pillars of society: they are charity workers, therapists and politicians. But as they begin to realise what Wunmi really represents, their certainty begins to crumble, the tension rises and a suffocating ash starts to fill the air. Full of forensic fury and incandescent poetry, Dipo Baruwa-Etti's fiercely political new play opened at the Almeida Theatre, London, in September 2022.

Dipo Baruwa-Etti is a playwright, poet and filmmaker. In 2020, he was shortlisted for the George Devine Award and was the Channel 4 playwright on attachment at the Almeida Theatre. Plays include The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (Theatre Royal Stratford East), which was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play, An unfinished man (The Yard Theatre, London), Half-Empty Glasses (Paines Plough and Rose Theatre, Kingston) and The Clinic (Almeida Theatre, London). For screen, he wrote and directed the award-winning short film The Last Days (BFI Network/BBC/ Tannahill Productions) and has several original projects in development. As a poet, he has been published in The Good Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears and Amaryllis, and had his work showcased nationwide as part of End Hunger UK's touring exhibition on food insecurity