PUNK DAYS A one person show with music at 45 revolutions per minute.
A Dervish Production.
Written and performed by Hassan Mahamdallie, Directed by Stef O’Driscoll. Creative team: Sound design, Dom Kennedy. Design, Rosie Elnile. Motion design, Carlton Matthews. Choreography, Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster. Produced by Isobel Hawson.
Part documentary, part musical journey and part coming of age, PUNK DAYS is the story of a mixed race, working-class kid growing up in 1970’s London, plagued by racism, who finds hope and liberation in the power of Punk Rock.
" I look around me at the sea of faces and something clicks. Maybe I don’t have to be so scared. Maybe we all can fight the fascists, drive them back or even overcome them? That London might be a different place, where I can grow up with ease…With ease".
Come along and join us for the first public sharing of Dervish’s latest work in development on Friday October 31 at 7pm.
Venue: Soul City Arts, Unit 1, Port Hope Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham B11 1JS.
Thanks to Soul City Arts for supporting and hosting this event.
Dervish Productions launched in 2016, is a radical theatre company with a mission to amplify voices from the edge.
Our partners include: Soul City Arts, University of Greenwich and a range of artists.
Information on our work, partners, and people we work with is on our website:
https://www.dervishproductions.com/
Please note: This is a preview of work in development, not a full performance.
Content Warning: Contains some swearing and accounts of racial violence.
For more information email info@dervishproductions.com
Past Productions:
’History told and retold through digital art and spoken word - is this the future of British theatre? I hope so’ - Media Diversified on The Crows Plucked Your Sinews
’Quiet Rebels is an enormously important piece of theatre for our time’ - Disability Arts Online
“Powerful,” “unforgettable,” and “unlike anything they’ve ever seen.” “emotional, timely & urgent work”.
‘It challenges the way we think about the world, explores the maritime history, our identity and often hidden stories of black people’ - Audiences on Spirits of the Black Meridian
