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Women who Blow on Knots
In Women who Blow on Knots you are immediately drawn into women’s lives. The characters include Amira, a Tunisian dancer and blogger who turns the tables on a person she feels belittled by, Maryam, a melancholy Egyptian academic obsessed with Dido, Queen of Carthage, who was present at the protests in Tahir Square, and standing in for Temelkuran herself, a young female Turkish journalist living in exile.
The London International Festival of Theatre 2024
From futuristic food markets to raw political monologues and genre-defying dance, this year’s London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) once again proves that performance art can provoke, enlighten, and transform. Highlights include Bat Night Market, The Land Acknowledgement, and L’Homme Rare—each offering audiences a radically different, yet deeply resonant experience.
AIN’T I A WOMAN?
These short plays range from one which looks at an imagined process which can changed the ethnicity of a young black woman exhausted by the racism she daily faces, another looks at a world decimated by a virus, where a young black woman, a leader of a resistance, is faced with an impossible choice to make.
Restriction is the Mother of Invention
This piece tells the important and fascinating story of Sophia Duleep Singh, an Indian princess who was both a prominent suffragette in the UK and god-daughter to Queen Victoria, in an engaging and impressively innovative way.
Oklahoma
The Young Vic’s bold revival of Oklahoma! reimagines the classic musical through blind casting, sharp social commentary, and a haunting finale that echoes America’s buried histories. Directed by Daniel Fish and Jordan Fein, this production strips away sentimentality to reveal a darker, more relevant vision of the American frontier.
The Coloured Valentino
The Coloured Valentino is a story of hopes and dreams, fighting the obstacles of racial injustice and smashing glass ceilings against all the odds.
Black Queer Voices
Brave Beauties shot from 2014 onwards consist of a series of portraits of Trans women, gender non-conforming and non-binary. Many of the women photographed are also beauty pageant contestants. They enter these pageants in order to change the mind set of those present. Those who are often happy to persecute trans-women. So, these images challenge transphobic stereotypes and stigmas.
Finding Love During the Time of Covid
Acclaimed playwright Bettina Gracias’ lovely award winning short film, ‘Jakinta’, highlights the issue of finding love during the time of covid.