Work archive · 14 productions

The complete work.

Every production made by, with or for Mama Quilla Productions and Kay Adshead. Click any title for full credits, press and notes.

  1. 01
    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...
    productionsMixed mediaTriad of plays
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  2. 02
    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...
    productionsPlatform eventMixed media
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  3. 03
    2007
    Bones
    Haymarket Theatre, Leicester / Bush Theatre, London
    Inspired by accounts of femicide in Ciudad Juárez and across Latin America. A reckoning with the disappeared and the silence around them.
    productionsInternationalPublished
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  4. 04
    2007
    Boys Talking
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    productionsEducationBarking College
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  5. 05
    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.
    productionsEducationBarking College
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  6. 06
    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.
    productionsEducationBarking College
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  7. 07
    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...
    productionsEducationBarking CollegeRNT commission
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  8. 08
    2007
    Stuffed
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    productionsEducationBarking College
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  9. 09
    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.
    productionsEducationBarking College
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  10. 10
    2007
    War Song
    The Broadway Theatre, Barking
    A new play devised with students from Barking College of Performing Arts, drawing on their own experiences.
    productionsEducationBarking College
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  11. 11
    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.
    productionsEducationBarking College
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  12. 12
    2005
    Bites
    Bush Theatre, London
    A sequence of short pieces examining political violence, complicity and the body politic in the post-9/11 decade.
    productionsPublished
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  13. 13
    2003
    Animal
    Soho Theatre, London / National Tour
    A vision of a state that tranquillises its own citizens rather than let them express their rage.
    productions
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  14. 14
    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...
    productionsAward-winningInternationalPublished
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