SECOND COMING By Debbie Tucker Green
SECOND COMING (95 mins)
by DEBBIE TUCKER GREEN
DEBBIE TUCKER GREEN
debbie tucker green has written a number of plays, including "Born Bad" for which she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2004. She has also won a BAFTA for Random, which was broadcast on Channel 4. Most of her stage plays have been produced at the Royal Court Theatre and the Young Vic in London. Debbie wrote and directed Second Coming, a film set in London starring Nadine Marshall and Idris Elba. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and was given a limited release in the UK by Kaleidoscope Entertainment in June of 2015 making green only the 4th British black woman to ever have a movie distributed in the UK following Ngozi Onwurah, Amma Asante and Destiny Ekaragha.
SYNOPSIS
This debut feature from British playwright Debbie Tucker Green is a family drama shaded with mystery and driven by confident, searching writing. It's a close portrait of a recognisable London family, with Jax (Nadine Marshall) working behind a customer-services desk for the local benefits service, her husband Mark (Idris Elba) doing long shifts on the railways and their 11-year-old son JJ (Kai Francis Lewis) negotiating school and growing up. But, among the details of family and work life, all presented in an elusive, time-hopping style, Tucker Green explores something stranger: it turns out that Jax is pregnant, and it's a cause of great tension, even agony, as it's unclear who, if anyone, could be the father.
