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There’s an immediacy to Brown Girls Do It Too: Mama Told Me Not to Come that few shows achieve. From the moment the lights go up, Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani pull the audience into their orbit—playful, political, and painfully honest.
Set against the backdrop of a retro bedroom and a killer soundtrack, the show’s aesthetic blends nostalgia with rebellion. It’s as much about who you were as a teenager as it is about who you’re still becoming. The duo jump between monologues, music, and sketch comedy, their rhythm as natural as friends finishing each other’s sentences.
The jokes are sharp but never cheap. They mine the absurdities of cultural expectations—the policing of brown women’s bodies, the unspoken double standards—and render them hilarious and human. When the comedy pauses, what’s left is raw emotion: a reminder of how silence can wound.
At times, the tone shifts abruptly from farce to confession, but that tonal elasticity is part of the show’s charm. It mirrors the contradictions of its subject matter—funny and sad, furious and freeing.
Brown Girls Do It Too is theatre that feels like community. It’s not just seen—it’s felt.
On until 13th September, book your tickets here.
WRITTEN BY: Nura Arooj