Roadkill

Synopsis

It is very hard to prove my name, it is very hard to prove my age, it is very hard to prove my story in a court of law. It is very hard to prove anything. In Benin City, a young girl struggles to support her family. A world away, in an Edinburgh tenement, ‘aunty’ Martha arranges a job and flight for her. Journey with her on the bus that leads to a new life and discover the nightmare reality behind Martha’s promises. Based on the experiences of young women trafficked to Scotland, this production by award-winning theatre artist Cora Bissett (Midsummer a play with songs), combines chilling performances with video, animation and music to thrust you into the hidden world of sex-trafficking. Not a world away from you, but a world on your doorstep. Contains strong language and sexual imagery.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 13 August 2010

You start at the Traverse, board a bus, and fetch up in a brothel on the other side of town, where a teenaged Nigerian girl has been pressed into sexual service.

She was so looking forward to being in Edinburgh, too, gawping at the city on the journey with us. Based on a real case of human trafficking in Glasgow, Cora Bissett’s production, written by Stef Smith and supported by the Scottish Refugee Council, is a powerful shock to anyone’s system.

Sixteen of us sit in the reception area before going down  to the bedroom, then the bondage room, where we are implicated in scenes of horrendous depravity and degradation, young Mary’s (Mercy Ojelade) humiliation made all the worse by its “theatrical” presentation with lights and video back-up.

Chillingly frank and direct contributions, too, from Adura Onashile as Martha the Madame, viciously entrapped herself, and John Kazek as pimp, client and blind eye-turning policeman...

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