Royal Court Collaborates With The BBC

Small Talk: Big Picture is a unique collaboration between the International Department of the Royal Court theatre and the BBC World Service. Continuing and extending the work of the international department, the Royal Court has commissioned writers from all over the world to write short plays exploring personal experiences in their own societies in relation to public events in the world.  Four of these plays will be broadcast by the BBC World Service from 11 November, with largely the same casts to a global audience of up to 42 million listeners.

The plays are:

• An Infidel in the Upper Room by Rotimi Babatunde (Nigeria)
• Whiteout by Anupama Chandrasekhar (India)
• Quiet, and We Hear by Philip Luswata (Uganda)
• Eleven Minutes by Naghmeh Samini (Iran) translated by Vali Mahlouji
• The Khomenko Family Chronicles by Natalia Vorozhbit (Ukraine) translated by Sasha Dugdale

All of these writers have participated in the Royal Court’s annual International Residency and are now leading playwrights in their home countries.

The plays will be presented as rehearsed readings directed by Orla O’Loughlin and Ramin Gray at 9pm on 16 and 17 November, after Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? by Caryl Churchill in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.