Pray For Me is a raw, intimate and visually striking solo performance by Sarah Adedeji, exploring Christianity through the eyes of a Black Deaf woman navigating faith, culture and identity.
Blending poetry, movement, dance and music, the show interrogates the painful and complex experience of being perceived as “in need of healing” within church spaces. Through personal storytelling and embodied expression, Sarah examines how Deafness is framed within Christian belief, and how Nigerian heritage, British culture and faith intersect, clash and coexist.
Originally commissioned by Surface Area and previously performed at Alphabetti Theatre, Pray For Me has been further developed under Fuse Theatre’s Lighting the Fuse initiative, which champions bold new Deaf-led work. Directed by Harry Jardine with movement direction by Chris Fonseca, the piece centres Deaf experience not as something to be fixed, but as something powerful, political and deeply human.
At once confronting and cathartic, Pray For Me asks urgent questions about access, belief and self-worth - and ultimately reclaims space for Deaf voices within stories of faith.
“It means so much to be working at CPT, it’s such a good opportunity to work in a professional environment at my age. I didn’t think that was ever going to happen and it means the world to me. It’s really going to help prepare me for my future and where I want to go”
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