It was #LightNightAtHome this week, and we were delighted to see a DaDaFest commission on the line-up. Ahead of the premiere of Amina Atiq’s audio-play, previously shared as a solo-performance at DaDaFest Scratch, she gave us the low-down on the latest developments to ‘Broken Biscuits’:
“I am delighted to be sharing an audio extract of Broken Biscuits. I worked with Brian Roberts to bring it to life with sounds to take you on a journey through four snippets of this new development of the play.
We begin at Gran-mother's 1970's Yemeni-british living room, to the confrontation with my mother who tells me, 'to never forget where you come from', but I insist that 'this is my home'.
We end with remembering the death of my gran-dad passed long before I was born, I honour his death with an exchanged promise with Liverpool to look after his children and gran-children 'in her summer days and winter nights'.
Though under the circumstances, I was planning to start developing my second scratch performance of the piece, I am excited to share a different layer to the play and it has inspired and challenged me to think bigger of what I want this to look like in the future.”
UPDATE: You can now find Amina Atiq's audio adaptation of Broken Biscuits in full on YouTube, watch it now here:
For even more background, make sure as well to watch this interview with Atiq's gran-ma, originally screened as part of her DaDaFest Scratch performance: