Paines Plough, The Women’s Prize for Playwriting, 45North, The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and the Orange Tree Theatre, in affiliation with Bristol Old Vic announce casting for Ahlam’s play YOU BURY ME which is able to play in Bristol, Edinburgh and London from the twenty fourth February till twenty second April 2023.
Ahlam’s YOU BURY ME is a play about intercourse, friendship and coming of age in post-Arab Spring Cairo and was joint winner of the inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020, an award established by Ellie Keel Productions and Paines Plough.
YOU BURY ME will probably be carried out by a forged of six actors. Nezar Alderazi (Occupational Hazards) will play Rafik; Olivier-award nominated actor Moe Bar-El (The Jungle) will probably be taking over the position of Tamer; Tarrick Benham will play Osman (New Voices for a New World); Hanna Khogali (Brief Encounter) will play the position of Alia; Eleanor Nawal (Sherlock in Homes) will play Lina and Yasemin Özdemir (Angel) will play Maya.
Directed by Paines Plough’s Joint Artistic Director Katie Posner, the manufacturing will open at Bristol Old Vic from twenty fourth Feb to 4th March earlier than transferring on to The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh from seventh to 18th March and working at the Orange Tree Theatre from twenty seventh March to twenty second April, marking the primary present in Tom Littler’s first season as Artistic Director on the OT. Tickets are actually on sale in any respect venues.
This story is a few metropolis. A metropolis of exhaust fumes, drunken cellphone calls, first kisses, hysteria, sweat and laughter. Cairo.
Coming of age within the aftermath of the Arab Spring, six younger Egyptians navigate friendship, loss and secret Grindr dates within the metropolis that made them.
Winner of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020, YOU BURY ME is an explosive, political debut from Ahlam a few era rising from a nationwide trauma, decided to stay and love freely.
“Only Cairo, eh? Only Cairo will push you to your absolute limits and then suddenly… you’re in love. You’re in love and you’re entangled and stuck. How does this city do that?”
Ahlam moved round loads as a baby. She has lived in Germany, Singapore, Kenya, Venezuela, Turkey and the UK. She initially studied theatre in Egypt, the place she created work combining components of classical Greek Theatre and surrealism with modern dance, primarily based on her heartbreak. Her curiosity in text-based theatre was compelled upon her in true British custom, when she was requested to put in writing a reimagining of Indiana Jones to take to the Edinburgh Fringe. Luckily, it seems she fairly likes writing. Ahlam is a dreamer. Ahlam desires of revolution. Ahlam desires of the emancipatory energy of day-dreaming. Ahlam desires of huge ensemble theatre with big units. Ahlam desires of pistachio-crusted salmon she ate as soon as in Sicily. Ahlam desires of affection. You Bury Me isn’t the primary play she’s written and it received’t be her final.