British Congolese playwright receives Susan Smith Blackburn prize for her debut play, Lava, staged in 2021 at the Bush in London Benedict Lombe has won this year's Susan Smith Blackburn prize for female, transgender and non-binary dramatists. In a special presentation at Shakespeare's Globe in London on Monday night, Lombe was named the winner for her play, Lava, a memoir-monologue that travels from Mobutu's Democrat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PM on April 11, 2022