Shifters

Dre and Des. Dream and Destiny.
Young. Gifted. Black.
He stayed. She left.

Now, tragedy brings them crashing back into each other’s lives - carrying new secrets and old scars that threaten to rewrite the past and reshape the future.

Benedict Lombe’s play Shifters is a fierce, funny and intoxicating romance about the enduring power - and fragility - of memory and love. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Artistic Director Lynette Linton.

Benedict Lombe is a British Congolese writer and theatre-maker based in London. Her plays include: Shifters (Bush Theatre, London, 2024) and Lava (Bush Theatre, 2021). Lava, her debut play, won Best Performance Piece at the 2022 Offies (Off West End Awards) and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2022. Lombe also won the Book and Lyrics Recognition Award at the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards