Past projects · 22 productions

Past projects.

The completed body of work made by, with or for Mama Quilla Productions and Kay Adshead. Click any title for full credits, press and notes.

  1. 01
    2025
    Crossing No Man's Land
    Alexandra Palace and Camden People's Theatre
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  2. 02
    2022
    The Pangolin Project
    Alexandra Palace
    A multi-disciplinary work combining theatre performance with experimental film, centered on women's voices and experiences during the...
    Mixed media
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  3. 03
    2019
    Section 28 and the Queer State
    Alexandra Palace
    An epic promenade theatre production staged at Alexandra Palace that explored the damaging e ffects of Section 28 and local community...
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  4. 04
    2018
    The Working Class Project
    Birmingham Rep; Broadway Theatre, Barking; Alexandra Palace, Haringey; Shop Front Theatre, Coventry; Saltaire; Coventry Market; Poundworld, Coventry
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  5. 05
    2016
    Acts of Defiance
    Theatre503
    Showcasing new plays written exclusively by female writers
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  6. 06
    2015
    The Singing Stones
    Arcola Theatre, London
    A triad of new plays inspired by the now-deleted blog posts of women protesting in Tahrir Square, and on the front lines of Tunisia and...
    Mixed mediaTriad of plays
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  7. 07
    2012
    Matter
    Broadway Theatre, Barking
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  8. 08
    2012
    Theatre of Protest
    The Roundhouse, London
    A January 2012 platform event at the Roundhouse — eight new commissions involving over 80 performers, building performance pieces directly...
    Platform eventMixed media
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  9. 09
    2010
    To Dismember
    John Lyon Theatre
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  10. 10
    2009
    Three Police Staments Taken from Working Girls
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  11. 11
    2007
    Boys Talking
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    EducationBarking College
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  12. 12
    2007
    Five Crimes Reconstructed
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    EducationBarking College
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  13. 13
    2007
    If Anyone Recognises These Young People
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    EducationBarking College
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  14. 14
    2007
    Lady Chill, Lady Wad, Lady Lurve, Lady God
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A tetralogy originally commissioned by the Royal National Theatre — four interlinked plays devised with young people from Barking College of...
    EducationBarking CollegeRNT commission
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  15. 15
    2007
    Stuffed
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    EducationBarking College
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  16. 16
    2007
    Sweet Papaya Gold
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    EducationBarking College
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  17. 17
    2007
    War Song
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    EducationBarking College
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  18. 18
    2007
    Woolworths the Musical
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    EducationBarking College
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  19. 19
    2006
    Bones
    Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, and the Bush Theatre, London
    A ruthless excavation of South Africa in 2005, and in an age of threats, retribution and bloody revenge, it is an anthem for hope.
    InternationalPublished
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  20. 20
    2005
    Bites
    Bush Theatre, London
    A sequence of short pieces examining political violence, complicity and the body politic in the post-9/11 decade.
    Published
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  21. 21
    2003
    Animal
    Soho Theatre, London / National Tour
    A vision of a state that tranquillises its own citizens rather than let them express their rage.
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  22. 22
    2000
    The Bogus Woman
    Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh / Bush Theatre, London
    A young woman arrives in a strange country. A woman who has committed no crime. She is indefinitely confined, humiliated, racially and...
    Award-winningInternationalPublished
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