Benedict Lombe is a Kinshasa-born Congolese British writer based in London. She began her relationship with the Bush on their Emerging Writers' Group, and Lava was written on commission.

'A monologue about diaspora, identity and belonging, [Lava] seethes with rage and pain, and glows with joy, a celebration of black strength and excellence, as much as an unflinching social and historical reckoning. Lombe's writing has a sinewy poeticism and warm, effortless wit... A legacy of trauma — slavery, colonial exploitation, apartheid — collides with intimate personal experience, producing a narrative of volcanic force... the play is always pulsingly impassioned. Brilliant, blistering theatre'

Benedict Lombe is a Kinshasa-born Congolese British writer based in London. She began her relationship with the Bush on their Emerging Writers' Group, and Lava was written on commission.

'A monologue about diaspora, identity and belonging, [Lava] seethes with rage and pain, and glows with joy, a celebration of black strength and excellence, as much as an unflinching social and historical reckoning. Lombe's writing has a sinewy poeticism and warm, effortless wit... A legacy of trauma — slavery, colonial exploitation, apartheid — collides with intimate personal experience, producing a narrative of volcanic force... the play is always pulsingly impassioned. Brilliant, blistering theatre'

Benedict Lombe is a Kinshasa-born Congolese British writer based in London. She began her relationship with the Bush on their Emerging Writers' Group, and Lava was written on commission.

'A monologue about diaspora, identity and belonging, [Lava] seethes with rage and pain, and glows with joy, a celebration of black strength and excellence, as much as an unflinching social and historical reckoning. Lombe's writing has a sinewy poeticism and warm, effortless wit... A legacy of trauma — slavery, colonial exploitation, apartheid — collides with intimate personal experience, producing a narrative of volcanic force... the play is always pulsingly impassioned. Brilliant, blistering theatre'