The Edinburgh Festival and Fringe is back, and our clients will be performing in a wide variety of exciting shows!
MEDEA – featuring Adura Onashile, Bea Webster, Pauline Lockhart and Wendy Seager
Runs 10-28 Aug at The Hub – For tickets and more info click here
ABOUT MONEY – featuring Michael McCardie
Runs 3-28 Aug at Summerhall – For tickets and more info click here
WILF – featuring Irene Allan
Runs 5-28 Aug at Traverse Theatre – For tickets and more info click here
MUSTER STATION: LEITH – featuring Paul McCole, Pauline Goldsmith
Runs 15-24 Aug at Leith Academy – For tickets and more info click here
THE STRANGE UNDOING OF PRUDENCIA HART – featuring Gavin Jon Wright
Runs 3-28 Aug at The Lyceum – For tickets and more info click here
A LADDER TO THE STARS – featuring Amy McGregor
Runs 3-29 Aug at Gilded Balloon Teviot – For tickets and more info click here
Dear Europe – National Theatre of Scotland/SWG3
Challenged by the National Theatre of Scotland to explore their relationship with Europe, some of Scotland’s most adventurous artists and theatre makers will present their powerful, playful and provocative responses in Dear Europe – one night only at Glasgow’s SWG3.
In moving through shadows, Nima Séne and Daniel Hughes will create a filmed piece exploring the experience of people of colour in present-day Poland alongside that of the Polish community in Scotland. Working with Polish/Nigerian singer Ifi Ude and theatre-maker Adura Onashile, a BAA client, the film will be inspired by the civil rights “red experience” in Soviet-era Poland.
Cadaver Police In Quest Of Aquatraz Exit, created by Alan McKendrick with Jules Buchholtz (dramaturg) will be performed by a cast including BAA’s Natali McCleary. The narrative follows the fortunes of the band Cadaver Police as they become the first international export out of a blockaded country after decades of total embargo. Marieluise Fleißer, Hito Steyerl, 2000AD magazine and contemporary octopus consciousness all provide suitable inspiration. Featuring live music from Glasgow avant-psych instrumentalists, Smack Wizards.
Dear Europe is presented by National Theatre of Scotland and will be performed at Galvanizers, SWG3, Glasgow on 29th March 2019.
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First Look Readings – Some Of Us Are Brave by Adura OnashileFirst Look Readings is the Traverse’s celebration of new writing, in which three Traverse-commissioned plays will be performed in front of an audience for the very first time, script-in-hand by professional actors. Brennan Artist Adura Onashile‘s Some of Us Are Brave is the first of the season’s plays.
We won’t be one of those couples that have a secret language that we display in public.
God, no!
And we won’t have any secrets?
No, no secrets
Lola and Sam are in love. Lola is Black. Sam is White. Set over a weekend at Sam’s brother’s wedding, their relationship slowly unravels in a tangled web of sex, lies and internalised racism.
THU 25 OCT, 7PM
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Breakfast Plays: YOUTHQUAKE – Traverse TheatreWorld premiere
youthquake noun
A significant cultural, political or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people.
Three young Scottish playwrights from the Traverse Young Writers’ group join forces with three leading British writers to explore a pressing question of our time: how can the younger generation be a catalyst for social and political change?
Paired with pieces from their professional mentors, this brave new body of work from young voices is a defiant demand to be seen as more than avocado-fuelled millennials.
Kick start your festival day with these script-in-hand readings, and enjoy a breakfast roll and tea/coffee with your ticket.
Old Enough written by Laurie Motherwell
Tonight the age of adulthood is increasing to 25. Jo is 20 and Poll is 26. What starts as a celebration of more care-free years becomes an exploration of what could be lost more than gained.
Cast includes: Joanna Tope (also appearing in Grout)
Fu**ing Millennials directed by Adura Onashile
Iain is a jaded, aging teacher in a state of personal crisis. When he blunders into an Edinburgh brothel only to find his former student Zara working there, both are drawn into a generational sparring match about work, intimacy and responsibility for the state of the world we inherit.
Cast includes: Mark McDonnell
Squall directed by Adura Onashile
Every school in Scotland has had lockdown drills for years. Drills keep students safe. Prepared for the worst-case scenario. Erin, Alice and Rob are stuck in a safe room with nothing to do but argue. About the drills. The drills that keep them safe. Because it’s always just a drill, right?
Cast includes: Mark McDonnell
The Things I Would Tell You: Words From Three Young British Muslim Women
Inspired by the anthology of the same name, three young British Muslim women explore what it is they should tell you, us, themselves and what they want to tell you, us, themselves in a mash up of poetry, discussion and song.
Cast includes: Neshla Caplan
Lurker
On the 15th June, 2017, teenage blogger Verity McAlpine disappeared. She stopped uploading videos, let her Instagram go stale and abandoned her Twitter followers. Anya Kine has a theory about the disappearance. How far will she go to uncover the truth?
Cast includes: Neshla Caplan
Further information on dates and times here
Creditors: Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Starring Adura Onashile at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. The run begins 27th April.
Young artist, Adolph is in love with his new wife, the successful novelist Tekla, and why would he not be? Charming, vivacious and experienced, she has been his passion, his inspiration and his education.
As he anxiously awaits her return to their seaside retreat, Adolph finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities laid bare and former debts settled in a tight spiral of psychological manipulation, love, betrayal and revenge.
More information can be found here.
Adura OnashileCongratulations to Adura Onashile who has been awarded Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme Bursary.
Adura has already embarked upon one-year attachment with the Traverse Theatre. Their principal task over the 12 months is to write at least one full-length play. She will also have the opportunity to submit her play for the Sonia Friedman Productions Award in the year following her bursary.
Playwrights were nominated by UK theatre Artistic Directors, with the five winners selected by the scheme’s panel chaired by Sir Richard Eyre and including Film4’s Commissioning Executive Julia Oh and Channel 4’s Head of Development for Drama, Matthew Wilson.
Adura has also been announced as the National Theatre of Scotland’s Artist in Residence. Find out more at the NTS website.
Scotland On DemandAdura has been working with Scotland On Demand, a fantastic new talent development opportunity for emerging minority ethnic writers and creative producers to create a 10-minute scripted pilot for digital broadcast, supported by Sky Drama and Creative Scotland.
Over five months Scotland on Demand has supported Adura and two other diverse, Scottish based writer and creative producer teams in the development of a 10-minute shooting script, to be showcased at a rehearsed table read on 14th September to an audience of industry, broadcasters and commissioners.
2017 BBC Writers Room – Adura Onashile
Adura Onashile has been selected as one of 20 writers on the 2017 BBC Writersroom Drama Room scheme.
The Drama Room is a six-month scheme which offers targeted training and development including workshops, masterclasses, introductions and networking events, the aim of which is to encourage and develop the best in new drama writing and to give these writers the opportunity to build strong connections with producers and help them gain BBC broadcast commissions.