Crossings
From: Wednesday, 3rd February 2010
To: Thursday, 4 February 2010
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Shelley is on the run. 15, and pregnant, she’s looking for a way out of the gang. She’s broken the code. We all know you don’t do that. In a raging storm she finds shelter on a strange ship. But this is no ordinary ship, it’s the ghost of the notorious Zong, a slave ship with a murderous history. Shelley is swept into the compelling stories of two powerful voices calling her to her future and a way out.
Our Review:
4 February 2010
Crossings is a new play by Julie McNamara who is a stalwart of disability–led theatre. There are five disabled members of the creative team, including McNamara herself.
The plot concerns the predicament of 15 year old Shelley who at the start of the piece is pregnant and on the run from a drugs gang in Liverpool in 2008. She flees to Canning Dock and there in the middle of a storm she gets caught up into the ghostly slaveship Zong. This is the infamous slave ship from Liverpool whose shameful story began to change public opinion against the slave trade.
She meets two figures from the past who have their own stories of confinement, loss and eventual escape. Over the course of a tense 65 minutes we hear their stories and see whether Shelley can learn her own lessons about how to make a new future for herself and her unborn child.
Sophie Benjamin's Shelley is an effective blend of feisty young street girl and sc...
Creative
Julie McNamara (Author)
Paulette Randall (Director)
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