Client details
Kay Adshead
Writer
| Rose Cobbe |
Kay Adshead is Artistic Director and co-founder of the award winning Mama Quilla Theatre Company. It is a woman lead theatre company and spotlights human rights issues. The company has worked in partnership with the All African Women’s Group (Mother’s Campaign), Women Against Rape and Women in Dialogue. For more information on Mama Quilla, see www.mamaquilla.org. Work as a director includes Hanging Loose (a promenade production in Hulme, Manchester); On the Verge (Man in the Moon), Fen, Entertaining Strangers and The Possibilities (all at the Lyric Hammersmith Studio); East End Tales by Fin Kennedy, Five Crimes Reconstructed and devised and directed Woolworths: The Musical (Broadway Theatre, Barking). Kay has devised and directed A Short (but insightful) Musical History of the British National Party (East 15); The Jugular Project (Guildhall School of Music); and The Beggar’s Baby (a site specific community youth project funded by The Guardian at St. Mary’s Church commemorating The Putney Debates). She also devised and directed Stuffed and War Song (incorporating The Soldiers Son) (The Crossroads Women’s Centre). Kay Adshead has been awarded two Arts Council Theatre writing Bursaries and in 1995 she received the Calouste Gulbenkian Award for performance poetry for The Slug Sabbatical. She was previously Writer-in-Residence at Colchester University. |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| FROM THE STREETS OF REVOLUTION (2012) | Roundhouse | A day of debate and performance - a series of linked events exploring recent global events and the nature of protest. |
| BREAKING (2011) | John Lyons Theatre | Work in progress transferring to Camden Fringe. |
| MATTER | Mama Quilla | |
| TO DISMEMBER | Mama Quilla in partnership with The English Collective Of Prostitutes | Part of the Soho Project |
| WORKING GIRLS | La Compagnie Yorick/Mama Quilla | Part of the Soho Project |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| IF ANYONE RECOGNISES THESE YOUNG PEOPLE (2011) | Mama Quilla | Performed in workshop at the Broadway Theatre Barking to be performed at The Round House in 2012. |
| THE LAST LITTLE GIRL (2011) | La Compagnie Yorick/Theatre Vitry at Cine Robespierre | Dir. Michael Batz |
| BOYS TALKING (2010) | Mama Quilla/Broadway Theatre, Barking | Devised and directed by Kay Adshead |
| SWEET PAPAYA GOLD (2010) | Mama Quilla/Broadway Theatre, Barking | Devised and directed by Kay Adshead. |
| PROTOZOA (2010) | The Red Room/Jellyfish Theatre | The Oikos Project was shortlisted for the Whats On Theatre event of the year. PROTOZOA was performed at The Jellyfish Theatre, the first fully recyclable theatre in Europe. Published by Oberon Books in THE OIKOS PROJECT. |
| THREE POLICE STATEMENTS TAKEN FROM WORKING GIRLS (2010) | Mama Quilla with The English Collective of Prostitues and The City Lit | |
| POSSESSED (2009) | Soho Theatre Company | Part of Everything Must Go |
| FIVE CRIMES RECONSTRUCTED (2009) | Mama Quilla/Broadway Theatre, Barking | Devised and directed by Kay Adshead |
| STUFFED (2008) | Mama Quilla/Broadway Theatre, Barking | Devised and directed by Kay Adshead |
| OTHERS (2008) | LAMDA | Part of LAMDA Long Project. |
| BONES (2007) | Calypso, Dublin/La Compagnie Yorick | |
| BONES (2006) | Mama Quilla/Leicester Haymarket/Bush | Writer and Director |
| THE BOGUS WOMAN (2005) | Leicester Haymarket | Dir. Kully Thiarai. Toured to Adelaide where it was awarded Best Performer, Best Play and the Sensation Award at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Also Brits Off Brodway (New York). |
| BITES (2005) | Mama Quilla/Bush Theatre | Writer and Director. Finalist for Susan Smith Blackburn Award. |
| ANIMAL (2003) | The Red Room | Dir. Lisa Goldman. Soho Theatre/National Tour. |
| METAL AND FEATHERS (2003) | Cockpit Theatre | Part of 'Small Objects of Desire' |
| THE SNOW EGG (2001) | Tiebreak Theatre/Lyric Studio | Tour, ending at Lyric Theatre Studio, Hammersmith. |
| LADY CHILL, LADY WAD, LADY LURVE, LADY GOD (2001) | National Theatre | Shell Connections |
| THE BOGUS WOMAN (2000) | Mama Quilla/Traverse Theatre/Bush Theatre | Dir. Lisa Goldman. 2000 Fringe First Award. Nominated for 2001 Susan Smith Blackburn Award. |
| BOGUS PEOPLE'S POEM (2000) | The Red Room/BAC | |
| JUICY BITS (1998) | Lyric, Hammersmith | |
| BACILLUS (1996) | The Red Room | Performed at the Red Room following rehearsed readings at the Cockpit and Hampstead theatres |
| THE SLUG SABBATICAL (1995) | The Red Room | |
| RAVINGS: DREAMINGS (1993) | Manchester Library | |
| THE STILL BORN (1993) | Soho Theatre | |
| THATCHER'S WOMEN (1987) | Paines Plough/Tricycle Theatre | Nominated for Susan Smith Blackburn Award |
| FEARS AND MISERIES OF THE THIRD TERM (1987) |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| OF THE END | BBC Radio 3 | Homage to Samuel Beckett. Writer and Performer. |
| HANGING (2002) | BBC Radio 4 | Produced by Catherine Bailey |
| THE BOGUS WOMAN (2001) | BBC Radio 3 | Produced by Catherine Bailey |
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AFTER THE PARTY | Club X/Channel 4 | |
| ORANGES AND LEMONS | BBC City Shorts |
