From the Edinburgh Fringe to the Rising Sun
By Damien on Mon 20 Jun
This Saturday we host a very special performance of A City of Foxes, a spoken word poetry play about identity, bigotry and unlikely friendship.
Durga is British but pines for an India she never knew. Martha still misses her daughter 46 years on and is determined that Durga isn't wanted here. So a mixed-race teenager and an old woman must learn to co-exist. And it's not going to be pretty.
A City of Foxes was written by Becci Fearnley, based on “…a story told to me a thousand times over by pre-teens too young to have to contend with an identity crisis this huge. This is my attempt to right a wrong being done to our children, (all of them) when we tell them that race, colour, culture, religion, language, any of it, matters more than whether or not you will help an old lady who has fallen in the road.”
It was crowdfunded last year, playing first at the Reading Fringe Festival (where it earned rave reviews from GetReading and Female Arts and the festival award for ‘a show that moved and impacted its audience’) before being taken to the PBH Free Fringe in Edinburgh. And this weekend, it’s back in Reading and at the Rising Sun Arts Centre.
Door is at 4pm, £5 entry.
