A Heart Shattering Performance

Three Lotus Flowers, performed at the to Face Festival of Solo Theatre, as part  of Voices From the Edge, reduces the grumpy gay critic to tears.

In a heartfelt review for Fresh From The Stalls, James Waygood AKA The Grumpy Gay Critic says 'Kay Adsheads writing is 'beautiful...devastating...it made me crumble ' and describes Eugenia Low's performance as 'Heart Shattering'.

See full review here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aHdBlUfp1c

Mama Quilla Gets ACE Grant For Singing Stones & The Veil

Following our funding Campaigns we have finally succeeded in getting in securing our Arts Council England grant!  Which Means productions of The Veil and Singing Stones will go ahead.

The Veil will tour Bradford, Manchester and Leeds and The Singing Stones will have a three week run at the Arcola theatre London.

Music Speaks Fundraiser

'The Singing Stones' at the Arcola - Funding Campaign

This year Mama Quilla were awarded a conditional grant from the Arts Council of England to produce a three-week run of The Singing Stones, a triad of plays exploring the role of women in the Arab revolutions, at the Arcola Theatre in February 2015. However this was a conditional award requiring us to raise a further £15,000.  Despite having successfully obtained awards from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and the Unity Theatre Trust we still needed to raise more and so embarked several funding initiatives including a crowd funding campaign. Through which we raised £4,025.

The funds raised from this campaign will go towards our set design costs, marketing/advertising costs and the costs of producing an animation sequence based on Middle Eastern graphic novels for the play's ending

Acts of Defiance film - ' Escape' goes into production...

A runaway finds shelter outside Waterloo Station.

Doorway of safety - written by Ann Akin and produced by Kay Adshead for Mama Quilla, shot on location in London is currently in production. 

Sound - Simon McCabe
DOP - Sarah Akigbogun

Edinburgh’s PEEP 2013

After roaring success way down in the Faraway Forest at the Latitude Festival, Edinburgh’s most intimate venue invites you back into your private booth to watch (but not touch) top UK and international writers and performers of all genres. Featuring a season of specially commissioned plays by Kay Adshead, Luke Barnes, Leo Butler, Pamela Carter and Kefi Chadwick, Argentine dance company Diego y Ulises, a changing evening cabaret programme hosted by the legendary Empress Stah and a month-long series of live art installations created bespoke for PEEP and curated by Edinburgh’s own ANATOMY.

Reviews for Kay Adshead's I am sad you are dead Mrs T ....

WHAT'S ON ......June 2013

ThatcherWrite at Theatre 503 responds to another former PM's legacy with plays by Dan Reballato, Kay Adshead and Judy Upton and more....THE GUARDIAN

Reviews for Kay Adshead's I am sad you are dead Mrs T ....

... a poetic mortar-bomb in the form of a double-edged, three-part eulogy. The language is penetrating witty and economical. And the climax - the tragic story of a vulnerable elderly woman whose degrading death contrasts with Thatcher's dignified demise in five-star luxury - is emotionally explosive.......THE TIMES...

Thatcherism gets another interrogation at Theatre503, with ThatcherWrite: seven shorts in response to her death. The best are either even-handed or outrageously satirical. Kay Adshead presents three poems by 17-yearolds, Blair’s babies, to examine her legacy......NEW STATESMAN

...But it is Kay Adshead’s I Am Sad You Are Dead Mrs T which most cleverly encapsulates aspects of the Tory leader. In three parts, we see her appeal to bigoted extremists and today’s smooth right-wing operators before contrasting Thatcher’s comfortable, cared-for demise in her bed at the Ritz with that of a warm-hearted cleaning lady who bit by bit slips through the net and is left to rot by the `society’ whose existence Thatcher refused or was unable to acknowledge......REVIEWSGATE

... expertly performed and devishily humorous.......ONE STOP ARTS

...Adshead really brings out the fists. ... The final deeply moving piece lands a devastating blow to the guts leaving us in no doubt about just who has suffered and continues to suffer under Thatcher's grim legacy.......EXEUNT MAGAZINE

...Viewing Thatcher from the perspective of someone who didn't live through her reign is a stroke of genius, and though it was utterly hilarious, it resonated on a serious level too.......SO SO GAY MAGAZINE

...A trio of eulogies ... from the wickedly acid pen of Kay Adshead. Three post-Thatcher inheritors of her policies misunderstand, adapt and revile those policies. ... The witty and very funny stereotypification of the first two set the poignant humanitarianism of the last into sharp relief.