If it makes you act upon something positively, it’s done something incredible. I believe it should make you think and question. SA: Theatre is something different for everyone. Writer Shazia Ashraf (centre) with (l-r) Sally Edwards Yetunde Oduwole and Komal Amin These three characters are deliberately different to reflect that the subject matter effects everyone, everywhere.ĪCV: How do you create a drama and make it something people can relate to and see and even ‘enjoy’… what is the process and the balance required? At home, in a religious building, in a school, in a village, in a town, in a city. Movement and music, as well as text, is used to tell the story to deliver emotions that only people in those situations would feel and understand.Įach character is from a different age group, a different country, and a different religion. So, I’ve always said art can allow you to open conversations and think about subjects we’re not comfortable with. The reason it continues is that we shut it out. Not because we want it to silently continue, but because we don’t want to believe it happens and the thought of such acts make us sick. SA: Like almost everyone the subject matter is one we instantly close our ears and eyes to. It was clear the play could and should be developed further, due to it being so timely.ĪCV: Why did you want to write about this subject? What made you choose of format of three monologues…? After its reading in January at Tristan Bates Theatre, the conversations continued. Shazia Ashraf (SA): This was a conversation between Kali Theatre, Shona Morris the director and RADA.
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Shona Morris, director with cast (l-r): Yetunde Oduwole Komal Amin and Sally Edwards (ACV): How did Sweet & Chocolates comes to be chosen by Rada? We caught up with the Yorkshire-based Ashraf to ask her how she came to be tackling such a difficult subject and how her play, only her third, came to RADA’s attention. There’s ‘Nadia’, a cricket obsessed girl growing up in Pakistan ‘Catherine’, a devout churchgoer in Congo and the headmistress of a English private school.
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The play consists of three first person fictional testimonies and RADA have added important physical attributes. There are six new performances of “ Sweets and Chocolates”, with the first tomorrow (Thursday June 23, see listing details below) and the work appears in the physical theatre section of RADA’s 10-day festival which gets underway today. It was first read in public and produced by Kali Theatre company at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London in January, for its annual Talkback series, which showcases work of promising up and coming new playwrights.
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However, it’s a sign of just how powerful and different Shazia Ashraf’s “ Sweets and Chocolates” is, that it has been chosen by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to feature in its annual 10-day theatre festival, which looks at ways of expanding the possibilities of theatre.
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A play which had its first public reading earlier this year has been chosen by one of the country’s most prestigious drama schools for a full production and its subject matter is anything but conventional…ĬHILDHOOD sexual abuse is a tough subject for anyone, let alone an emerging playwright.