Overview
Two explosive plays about the need to be seen. Somalia Seaton's House is
a play about family, culture clash, memory and truth. When Pat returns
to her childhood home after a five-year absence, she's ready to forgive
her mother for the neglect she suffered at her hands, but Mama isn't
ready to let the demons back into her home. In Chino Odimba's Amongst
the Reeds, two friends scratch out a living on the margins of society.
Oni and Gillian have made their home in a disused office block, finding
ever more precarious ways to stay hidden from the authorities. But now
Gillian is heavily pregnant, and visibility might be the only way to
give her baby a chance. Commissioned by Clean Break and produced in
association with the Yard Theatre, London, House + Amongst the Reeds
premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016, before transferring
to The Yard. Acclaimed theatre company Clean Break produces
ground-breaking plays with women writers and actors at the heart of its
work.
Founded in 1979 by two women prisoners who needed urgently to tell their
stories through theatre, the company today has an independent education
programme delivering theatre opportunities to women offenders and women
at risk, in custodial and community settings.