Three Flying Solo

A triple bill, presenting a new solo play each week.  Contemporary British Asian theatre, directed by
Annie George and produced by Ekua Bayunu for
Wave Theatre.

Dates: Sun 3-Mon 25 Aug
Time: 2pm (50 mins)
Tickets: £8.50/£7.50
Bookings:at venue +44 (0)131 527 1562 (from 3 Aug)
or from Fringe Box Office boxoffice@edfringe.com
or Tel. No. +44 (0) 131 226 0000
Venue: Invasian Festival,
Club West @ Quincentenary Hall,
Royal College of Surgeons,
Nicolson Street Edinburgh EH8 8DH   
Click here for Invasian Web Site

’NOOR’

by Annie George

Sun 3 – Sat 9 Aug

performed by

Annie George

With her life flashing before her eyes, Noor sees
the light at the end of the tunnel, with the help
of an angel from the past.

Annie George is Artistic Director of Wave Theatre

’STRANGER’

by Dharmesh Patel

Sun 10 – Sat 16 Aug

performed by

Imran Mirza

A young man.  A dark crime.  A culinary journey into the arena between good and evil.

DHARMESH PATEL trained at Hope St Ltd. Physical Theatre School.  Previous theatre includes: Slowtime (National Theatre), Satyagraha (Improbable Theatre and English National Opera); Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Beauty and the Beast (Told By An Idiot); Silent Cry (Red Ladder Theatre Company), Bollywood Jane; Happy Prince (Leicester Haymarket), Animal Farm (Italy & Siciliy Tour), Charity Commissioner, Beauty and the Beast(Unity Theatre, Liverpool),and Too Close to Home (Rasa Productions).TV credits includes Doctors, Casualty and England Expects (BBC).

Dharmesh is an Associate Artist with Wave Theatre.

’THE DICTATOR’S WIFE’

by Mohammed Hanif

Sun17 – Mon 25 Aug

performed by

Nimra Bucha

The First Lady has received five thousand roses for her thirty-fourth wedding anniversary. Her husband, the sixth most powerful man in the world, has started bringing a briefcase to bed. The only problem is that the brief case contains active controls for the country’s nuclear weapons. Can this family feud be contained to the family bedroom?

MOHAMMED HANIF is a journalist and a writer, currently the head of BBC’s Urdu Service.  His radio play “What Now, Now That We Are Dead?” was produced and broadcast by BBC World Service.

His first novel “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” will be published by Jonathan Cape in UK and Knopf in the USA. Translation rights have been bought by leading publishers in France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Holland and Hungary.

He will also be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 12 August.

NIMRA BUCHA has acted on stage and radio in Pakistan and the UK.   She was actively involved in and performed with Baang Theatre, an actor’s collective in Pakistan before she moved to London.  She has also acted in plays for BBC World Service and Radio 4 and was in the radio adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children”. 

She has performed previously with Wave Theatre in their readings of “The Dark Prince” at the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and Glasgow Citizens.

“The Dark Prince ”
Written and directed by Annie George

presented as rehearsed readings at
Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and Citizen’s Theatre Glasgow in November 2007

Family, community, and the killer instinct are themes explored in the “The Dark Prince”, which tells the story of a young Asian boxer and his trainer, an older West Indian man. Mind, body and spirit are pushed to the limits.

The play was developed with the support of Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and written following a period of research and devising workshops with actors. Cast included Trevor A Toussaint, Nimra Bucha, Shane Zaza, Alloysious Massaquoi and Alisa Anderson. Music by Jean-David Caillouet.

“Coast” produced at Contact Theatre Manchester

J is traveling from Glasgow to London.; K, his estranged half-brother, is driving.; Will the road trip bring them together?;
Or will their baggage overload the suspension?; Drawing influences from the ‘road movie’ genre, Coast is a contemplation on the many journeys we make, physical, emotional, cultural...; Beginnings, endings, the bits in the middle, detours, roadblocks, things that bring us back on course, things remembered for ever. The road.

Written and directed by Annie George
Devised by Annie George, Dharmesh Patel and Avin Shah

“…a visually and verbally gorgeous play.”
Cheryl Martin, Associate Director New Writing, Contact Theatre Manchester

“…what an amazing creation – Kerouac’s ‘ On The Road’
is one of my favourite books and the piece really takes
me back to the imagery I had in my mind when I read it…” Audience member

(Image left to right: Dharmesh Patel, Avin Shah)

“The Wave Project” a rehearsed reading at Traverse Theatre Edinburgh

In a setting that looks out across the rooftops of Glasgow’s Sighthill estate, The Wave Project explores asylum, betrayal and survival.; The Wave Project was inspired by material devised in workshops, which took as starting points the shipwreck in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, meditations
on the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and landings
in places unknown…

Written and directed by Annie George
Devised by Annie George and Ghazi Hussein,
with Anthony Adjekum, Qaseem Ansari
and Josephine Ronan

(Image left to right: Qaseem Ansari, Ayodeji Aloba, Avin Shah)

“Incendiary” at Oval House Theatre London
Created and directed by
Annie George and Lara Samuels

Taking as its starting point the nail bombings in Brixton and Bethnal Green London in 1999, Incendiary examines the relationship between the Black and Asian communities united
as equal targets, alongside the gay community in Soho.

“On stage they have continually; produced engaging dialogue, powerful interaction, strong theatrical moments; and unforgettable images of tenderness, pain, human failure
and humanity - with good storytelling always at the core
of their work.”