Written by Mojisola Adebayo Directed by Matthew Xia ★★★★ If the name Henrietta Lacks isn’t familiar to your tongue, research her. She’s more than deserving of your time. The concept of a human body as a ‘farm’ may seem uncomfortable to some, repulsive even, but it's precisely (and accurately) how Henrietta Lacks refers to herself … Continue reading Family Tree – Traverse Theatre
Written and Directed by Nicholas Bones Designed by Sans façon ★★★★ How far gone are we from our kindred association with nature? And how can one expect us to reclaim this understanding and appreciation of the world beneath our feet if we struggle to find peace with one another, even failing to do so with … Continue reading Walden – Fruitmarket
https://youtu.be/hDK55ecH7Kw Written by Giles Terera Directed by Tom Morris & Giles Terera ★★★★★ In this mortal valley of howling yaps and indistinguishable guttural cries – one voice is enough to command the room, to prick the ear of the right people. To change history. Two hundred years ago, Olaudah Equiano recounts the reports of a … Continue reading The Meaning of Zong – Lyceum Theatre
Written and performed by Catherine Bisset Dramaturgy by Jaïrus Obayomi Directed by Flavia D’Avila ★★★★ Watching the world unfold, a play within itself, The Placeholder begins in the very seats our audiences find comfort. No longer a theatre in the sharp, bitter cold of Scotland, but of Port-au-Prince, where Minette awaits her white employer – holding her … Continue reading Placeholder – Byre Theatre
https://youtu.be/imsXlSV-Ytg Written & Directed by Adura Onashile ★★★★ Surrounding the Merchant City, a construct name for an area of Glasgow, once Scotland’s centre of economics and culture, are the skeletons of its cruel and absent-minded past. A city constructed on the foundations of slavery, these frames are not the bones of the nameless men, women and … Continue reading Ghosts – National Theatre Scotland
