Sweetheart Music - Holly Blue Productions

Bespoke Theatre for Diverse Communities

Sweetheart Music is a play for older teens and adults. It was written in 1997 for a company with strong adult and child performers. It is set at a time when a lively Caribbean population was growing up, with a desire to communicate their own and their parent’s experiences as UK residents.

Sweetheart Music Story Line

Some time in the early 1950’s, young Black British Angie is getting ready for her wedding to Milton, newly arrived from Jamaica. Angie has no dad around and no other male relative – so young cousin Lennie is also coming to London to give her away.

The Overseas Club, founded on the post war conception of Commonwealth, is a meeting place for people now supposedly of one big international ‘family’. Events in the town prove that this idea may need more time to take root………..

But music does not recognise walls or boundaries, it slides under doors and wafts through half closed windows. It pervades countries’ histories and filters into the consciousness of everyone, regardless of prejudice. This play is about prejudice, and music.