TRIPLE BILL: EVERYWHERE

01 Apr 2025

Shakespeare North Playhouse

Running 25 March – 12 April, award-winning British African heritage contemporary theatre company tiata fahodzi will tour three new plays from emerging writers as part of their commitment to raising the voices of British African artists. An eclectic triple bill of short plays, TRIPLE BILL: EVERYWHERE by Yusra Warsama, Magero, and Anyebe Godwin will tour to both studios and reimagined theatre spaces, inviting conversations and questions around the meaning of belonging everywhere.

Continuing their long track record of supporting and investing in British African artists at different stages of their careers, tiata fahodzi return with their most extensive Triple Bill tour to date – the first since the success of Talking About Revolution, 2023. TRIPLE BILL: EVERYWHERE opens at Enfield’s Dugdale Arts Centre and Birmingham Rep Theatre, before touring to Prescot, Newcastle, Nottingham, Lincoln, Sheffield, Coventry, Bristol, Weston-super-Mare, and Norwich.

By touring to community spaces across England, including libraries and churches, tiata fahodzi aims to bring theatre to new audiences and develop enriching local connections with them. To aid in this creative mission, the company is also recruiting a new ‘Community Activator’ role, as part of their work with tf Artists’ Village which brings audience development and artist development closer.

Directed by former Joint Artistic Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Roy Alexander Weise MBE (Master Harold and The Boys – National Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing – RSC; The Mountaintop – Royal Exchange Theatre; The Hot Wing King – National Theatre), each play grew from a prompt from tiata fahodzi Artistic Director and CEO, Chinonyerem Odimba: what does ‘everywhere’ mean and what is ‘home’?

GESTATION by acclaimed actor, writer, poet, and theatre practitioner Yusra Warsama, finds women on a maternity ward in a hospital in the near future. On the verge of motherhood, they contemplate the class and race-based prejudices facing both themselves and their unborn children in the face of an uncertain world and future.

Set in an escape room, Y-TEPHRA by Magero – award-nominated spoken word artist, writer and co-founder of ‘The Brotherhood Creative Collective’ – sees three siblings search for freedom not just from the game they find themselves in, but also from their fractured family dynamics.

Anyebe Godwin’s APPROACH explores the housing difficulties faced by Black people in England today, inspired by Anyebe’s own experiences of homelessness and housing uncertainty while living with chronic illness. Anyebe’s acting credits include The Empress and Falkland Sound with the RSC; he has trained with Soho Writer’s lab, Hightide Writer’s Collective, and Young Vic Neighbourhood Voices.

Interlinked by their socio-political themes exploring race, class, and gender-based prejudice and discrimination, each short play explores a distinct topic and setting.