Tahirah Sharif (Talawa Theatre’s Moon on a Rainbow Shawl) takes the lead role in Max Katz’s Box Chicken, the only play to be set in and around a London fried chicken shop. Ailleen is about to turn 16. In the confines of a run-down fried chicken shop, she finds refuge from the pain left behind by the sudden disappearance of her eldest brother Ricki, and from the demons that haunt her alcoholic mother Rose. When Ailleen’s Uncle Silco unexpectedly returns, her birthday party descends into shocking revelations and dangerous half-truths. Against the backdrop of boxed chicken, her coming of age is acutely shaped by the flawed adults and the secrets of those closest to her. Box Chicken will receive three staged readings at the Brockley Jack Theatre as part of the Write Now 5 Festival.
Date: Wednesday 21st, Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th May 2014 Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Brockley Jack Theatre, 410 Brockley Rd, London SE4 2DH
Price: £7 (with free after show discussion with the creative team)
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