Next week, Birmingham Rep will be hosting the premiere of tiata fahodzi’s brand new TRIPLE BILL: EVERYWHEREon Thursday 27 March, before the celebrated British African heritage contemporary theatre company continue their tour across theatre and community spaces across England until Saturday 12 April.
This eclectic triple bill of short plays by Yusra Warsama, Magero, and Anyebe Godwin, and directed by Roy Alexander Weise MBE, TRIPLE BILL: EVERYWHERE will feature Aisha Jawando (Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton The Musical – UK Tour; Tina in Tina The Musical – Aldwych Theatre; Wicked – Universal Pictures; Cinderella in Cinderella – Hackney Empire), Reba Ayi-Sobsa (by their fruits – Theatre 503; Black Mirror S7 – Netflix; Daisy Chains – The Production Exchange), and Shadrach Agozino (Killing Boris Johnson – Musa Alderson-Clarke; Anthem Live – Almeida Theatre; Murder in Provence – ITV).
The three actors will feature as a three-hander in all three short plays, which are all interwoven by their themes of race, class, and gender-based prejudice and discrimination.
The first of these plays being: GESTATION 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.
Followed by Y-TEPHRA by Magero, an award-nominated spoken word artist, writer and co-founder of ‘The Brotherhood Creative Collective’. Set in an escape room, this play sees three siblings on a search for freedom not just from the game they find themselves in, but also from their fractured family dynamics.
Ending with, Anyebe Godwin’s APPROACH which 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. Anyebe’s acting credits include The Empress and Falkland Sound with the RSC; he has trained with Soho Writer’s lab, Hightide Writer’s Collective, and Young Vic Neighbourhood Voices.
Tickets are available now from £12*, with discounted tickets available for registered 16-25 Rep Members from www.birmingham-rep.co.uk