Roadkill by Cora Bissett

Roadkill by Cora Bissett

Winner of the 2012 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievment In An Affiliate Theatre. A world away from you, but a world right on your doorstep. A powerful story of the terrifying complexities of sex trafficking today based on real experiences. Moving away from generalised narrative accounts of trafficked women, this explosive, site-specific production combines direct, chilling performances with video and animation. RoadKill exposes the brutal and hidden truth behind the newspaper headlines as audiences share in the intimate, harrowing details of a young woman trapped in a living nightmare.

“Brutal and compelling… be warned this is as uncomfortable a night in the theatre as you’re ever likely to get” –Evening Standard “Intended to raise awareness of child sex trafficking rings and thus has the single-minded focus of issue led-dramaBut it is also excellent” –Metro “How to recommend a play that makes an ashen-faced wreck of you? My advice is see Roadkill but take someone along to scrape you off the floor afterwards.” –Sunday Times
“Brutal and compelling… be warned this is as uncomfortable a night in the theatre as you’re ever likely to get” –Evening Standard “Intended to raise awareness of child sex trafficking rings and thus has the single-minded focus of issue led-drama. But it is also excellent” –Metro “How to recommend a play that makes an ashen-faced wreck of you? My advice is see Roadkill but take someone along to scrape you off the floor afterwards.” –Sunday Times

Cora Bissett is an award winning actor and theatre director. Having worked widely as an actress, she won the Arches Award for Directors in 2009 and devised her debut production, Amada. In 2010 she launched her own company, Pachamama; Roadkill was the company's flagship production. As an actress, She recently filmed the 9th and 10th series of Rab C. Nesbitt & also recently starred in the international tour of Midsummer, for which she won the 2009 Stage Best Actress Award.

Stef Smith was awarded the 2011 New Playwrights’ Award by the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland. She has also written a radio drama for BBC Scotland entitled Tea and Symmetry. Most recently, she became a "writer on attachment" with The National Theatre of Scotland.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781849431989
ISBN 10	1849431981
Title	Roadkill
Author	Cora Bissett
Series	Oberon Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2011-10-26
Number of pages	74
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