NO GUTS, NO HEART, NO GLORY
NO GUTS
NO HEART
NO GLORY
A play by Common Wealth
Written by Aisha Zia
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Contents
Contact, Manchester
Foreword
Introduction
About Common Wealth:
Note on the text:
Act One
Endurance
CONTACT, MANCHESTER
No Guts, No Heart, No Glory is co-produced by Contact. Contact is the Manchester-based contemporary arts venue and charity that places young people’s leadership and decision-making at the heart of the organisation. Through a highly diverse programme of presenting, commissioning and producing, Contact consistently challenges assumptions about who performs, where and for whom. As such, No Guts, No Heart, No Glory is an important project for Contact, in its challenge to the assumptions we might make about the life choices available to young Muslim women. To hear these young performers express a delicate balance of duty, care, love and respect, but also frustration and steely determination, is deeply moving. To see them perform in front of the young and diverse audiences the
