# Statement of Regret

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***Statement of Regret*** is a play by [black British](/source/Black_British) [actor](/source/Actor) and [playwright](/source/Playwright) [Kwame Kwei-Armah](/source/Kwame_Kwei-Armah). The play premiered in the [National Theatre's](/source/Royal_National_Theatre) Cottesloe Theatre, [London](/source/London), in 2007, directed by [Jeremy Herrin](/source/Jeremy_Herrin).[1]

## Synopsis

Kwaku Mackenzie, founder of a Black policy think tank, hits the bottle after his father's death. As media interest in the once dynamic Institute fades, his team grows fractious and then, disastrously, he favours a young Oxford scholar over his own devastated son. When, in a vain attempt to regain influence, he publicly champions division within the Black community, the consequences are shattering.

## Original cast

- [Don Warrington](/source/Don_Warrington) - Kwaku Mackenzie
- [Colin McFarlane](/source/Colin_McFarlane) - Michael Akinbola
- [Chu Omambala](/source/Chu_Omambala) - Idrissa Adebayo
- [Angel Coulby](/source/Angel_Coulby) - Issimama Banjoko
- [Ellen Thomas](/source/Ellen_Thomas_(actress)) - Lola Mackenzie
- [Javone Prince](/source/Javone_Prince) - Kwaku Mackenzie Junior
- [Trevor Laird](/source/Trevor_Laird) - Val
- [Clifford Samuel](/source/Clifford_Samuel) - Adrian Mackenzie
- [Oscar James](/source/Oscar_James) - Soby

## References

1. [Michael Billington](/source/Michael_Billington_(critic)), ["Statement of Regret" (review)](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/nov/15/theatre2), *The Guardian*, 15 November 2007.

## External links

- [Official website of production](http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/statement)
- Kwame Kwei-Armah: ["Why I'm willing to be unfashionable in the search for true definition"](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3669179/Kwame-Kwei-Armah-Why-Im-willing-to-be-unfashionable-in-the-search-for-true-definition.html), *The Telegraph*, 10 November 2007.

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