The Combe (Work-in-Progress)
For English Touring Theatre’s Nationwide Voices I am exploring how the privatisation of land negatively impacts rural communities. I am examining the links between health and nature through engaging with Right to Roam activists and global majority walking groups. Taking inspiration from fairy tales, folk horror, and traditional rural storytelling, I hope to develop a new piece of work where music, modernity, and myth become intertwined.
English touring theatre:
Nationwide Voices
Nationwide Voices is a mid-scale talent development programme for playwrights from across the country.
The year-long development programme aims to nurture and amplify a cadre of three exciting new voices, helping to bring their work onto mid-scale stages across Britain. This year, the programme is focusing on people-based work: finding innovative new ways to integrate community- and audience-groups into the creation of plays for main stages.
Year three of Nationwide Voices is led by ETT in collaboration with Birmingham Rep, Manchester Royal Exchange and tiata fahodzi, with venues and companies offering an attachment for their chosen playwright, who each have a meaningful connection to the local area. This year the playwrights are Ashlee Elizabeth Lolo (Birmingham Rep), Malaika Kegode (tiata fahodzi) and Joshua Val Martin (Manchester Royal Exchange).