A Portable Grace
An adaptation of Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise
Written by Dzifa Benson
Directed by Adeola Yemitan
Wednesday 21st August, 7.30pm,
Pay What You Decide / £8
Please note, this is a staged extract
Content Warnings:
Extended scene about the Grenfell Tower tragedy including reciting the names of the victims, themes of loss of children, graphic references, references to blood, implication of intention of sexual assault
Writer Dzifa Benson will adapt Roger Robinson’s TS Eliot Poetry Prize winning collection of poems A Portable Paradise. The play, which explores what it means to care, reunites Benson with Director Adeola Yemitan, who appeared in her 2021 adaptation of Othello. Benson is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist who as a poet has been awarded a Jerwood Foundation Fellowship and shortlisted for the inaugural James Berry Prize in 2020 and the Bridport Poetry Prize in 2023. Her work as a dramatist includes a critically acclaimed adaptation of Othello for NYT starring Francesca Amewudah-Rivers in the title role and Locked Down/Locked In, which was awarded Best Original Script at Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival.
We are proud to acknowledge the support of our principal supporter Arts Council England and Christina Smith Foundation for the Alan Macdonald Bursaries for their support of StoryFest.
