Triple Bill: Everywhere

Theatre is EVERYWHERE around us.

tiata fahodzi presents EVERYWHERE – a triple bill of short plays presented together, driven by a provocation about what we do in what spaces matter.

Drama and conflict are things that we experience as humans everywhere beyond the limitations of a theatre space, and these three commissioned writers are exploring what that means to them in short form. Working with brilliant actors and creatives, the triple bill 30-minute pieces will bring some of best established and emerging talent from theatre to tell original and diverse stories that take us from displacement to maternity wards.

The EVERYWHERE triple bills are very much about instigating conversations and curiosity between artists and audiences.

Directed by former Joint Artistic Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Roy Alexander Weise MBE (Master Harold and The Boys – National Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing – RSC; The Mountaintop – Royal Exchange Theatre; The Hot Wing King – National Theatre), each play grew from a prompt from tiata fahodzi Artistic Director and CEO, Chinonyerem Odimba: what does ‘everywhere’ mean and what is ‘home’?

THREE BUMPS by acclaimed actor, writer, poet, and theatre practitioner Yusra Warsama, finds women on a maternity ward in a hospital in the near future. On the verge of motherhood, they contemplate the class and race-based prejudices facing both themselves and their unborn children in the face of an uncertain world and future.

Set in an escape room, EVERYWHERE by Magero – award-nominated spoken word artist, writer and co-founder of ‘The Brotherhood Creative Collective’ – sees three siblings search for freedom not just from the game they find themselves in, but also from their fractured family dynamics.

Anyebe Godwin’s HOMESEARCH explores the housing difficulties faced by Black people in England today, inspired by Anyebe’s own experiences of homelessness and housing uncertainty while living with chronic illness.

Interlinked by their socio-political themes exploring race, class, and gender-based prejudice and discrimination, each short play explores a distinct topic and setting.

tiata fahodzi, the UK’s leading British African heritage contemporary theatre company, produces theatre that is fearless for a Britain of today; rich with languages, races, cultures and identities.

Writers include Yusra Warsama, Magero and Anyebe Godwin. Directed by Roy Alexander Weise MBE.