An Evening with an Immigrant
A digital performance
Dates
The production will be streamed over 5 nights from 15th June 2021.
Tuesday 15th June, 7.30pm
Wednesday 16th June, 7.30pm
Thursday 17th June, 7.30pm
Friday 18th June, 9.00pm
Saturday 20th June, 7.30pm
Performance
Digital stream.
Artist/Company
Inua Ellams
Produced by
Fuel
TICKETS
£10 > BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE
Running Time
90 minutes, 1 minute interval
Location
An online event.
“A deeply moving and human performance.”
Born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother in what is now considered by many to be Boko Haram territory, award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams left Nigeria for England in 1996 aged 12, moved to Ireland for three years, before returning to London and starting work as a writer and graphic designer.
Part of this story was documented in his autobiographical Fringe First Award-winning play The 14th Tale, but much of it is untold. Littered with poems, stories, and anecdotes, Inua tells his ridiculous, fantastic, poignant immigrant-story of escaping fundamentalist Islam, experiencing prejudice and friendship in Dublin, performing solo at the National Theatre, and drinking wine with the Queen of England, all the while without a country to belong to or place to call home.
As part of the act of sharing stories and experiences of migration and global human movement across borders, An Evening with an Immigrant will coincide with Refugee Week 2021.
The show is being presented in partnership with multiple venues from across the UK including the Albany, ArtsDepot, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Coombe Farm Studios, Curve Theatre, Derby Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Lyceum Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Norwich Arts Centre, Omnibus Theatre, Pound Arts, Rose Theatre and Stratford Circus.
An Evening with an Immigrant was filmed at The Bridge Theatre in November 2020, and is presented on Fuel Digital. English captions are available. Written and Performed by Inua Ellams. Music Selection by DJ Sid Mercutio.
“Moving. Emotional. Put a face to the stories in the news. Loved it.”
“There’s nothing flashy about it — just a writer and his words. It’s testament to Ellams’s extraordinary talent that this autobiographical show is as engrossing as it is.”
★★★★ The Guardian
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Theatre Club
You’ve seen the show online, you’re really keen to talk about it, but… where’s the bar? Who can you chat with? Hosted by writer Maddy Costa, Theatre Club is an open, friendly space for audiences to meet post-show and share what they thought. It’s not like a Q&A – no one who made the show will be there – so we can ask each other questions and say what we really felt, whether we were fascinated, bored, annoyed, confused or anything in between.
When?
The Theatre Club will take place after the performance on 17 June 2021, 9.10pm
Theatre Club Tickets
Theatre club tickets are free and available here