Scripted Notes for presentation

Sami Ibraham

Sami’s story:

 It was then shortlisted for Soho Theatre's Tony Craze Award and longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize.
 Not long after that it was published by Nick Hern Books as part of their collection of one of the best
plays of the festivals.

More facts:

 He has been on attachment at the National Theatre Studio and Theatre Clwyd, and a member of the
Tamasha Writers Group and Oxford Playhouse Playmaker programme.
 He is currently developing a feature film, off land, with the BFI Early Development Fund, a television
project with Expanded Media and he is part of the BBC Drama Room.

His plays
Two Palestinians go dogging:
Performed at Royal Court Theatre;
winner of the inaugural Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award in 2019);
A sudden violent burst of rain
Performed at Paine's Plough / Rose Theatre, Kingston / Gate Theatre
Force of trump
Performed at Theatre N16/The Space/Brockley Jack);
Wonder Winterland
Performed at Oxford School of Drama/Soho theatre
Metamorphoses
The Globe

Sabrina Mahfouz

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FACTS
That same year, she put on her first solo show, Dry Ice, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and snagged the Stage Award
for Acting Excellence.
When talking about her heritage story:
“People I went to see for jobs would show shock at the disparity between my face and the name on my CV. They’d
say: ‘I expected you to be a lot more foreign.’ It’s that moment, as a teenager, when you first realise the difference
between all that you are and how the world sees you.” - This made her create Noughts and Crosses.

More about her plays:

Chef and Clean - have been performed at the Fringe, the Soho Theatre, the Roundhouse and in New York, and have
won numerous awards, including a Fringe First and an Off West End Award in 2018 for the children’s show Zeraffa
Giraffa.
With a little bit of luck – (Was adapted as a radio drama for BBC Radio 1Xtra) It received its world premiere at the
latitude festival 2015 and then was produced as a tour by Pained Plough and latitude from 13th April 2016.
Noughts and crosses - Her adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses for Pilot Theatre went on tour
around the country.
It’s loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, focuses on a dystopian world where a segregated society (Noughts and
Crosses) is full of racial and social divides.

Poems
She wrote How You Might Know Me, it was published by Outspoken Press in 2017 and named a Guardian Best
Summer Read, and many of her plays have been published by Methuen.
She is the editor of The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, which was voted a 2017 Guardian
Book of the Year, and selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf.

Laura Lomas

Plays
Joanne - (Clean Break & Soho Theatre)
Us Like Gods - (Hampstead, Heat and Light);
Gypsy Girl - (Paines Plough and at Soho Theatre)
Some Machine - (Paines Plough/Rose Bruford);
Blister - (Paines Pough/Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama);

Radio
My Boy (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play; Bronze SONY Award for best radio drama)
Screen work

Rough Skin (Touchpaper/Channel 4; shortlisted for Best British Short at British Independent Film Awards and
Raindance Film Festival).
She has also written two episodes of Jack Thorne’s series Glue (E4/Eleven Films), and has been commissioned by BBC
Radio 4, Manchester Royal Exchange, and jointly by Clean Break and Birmingham Rep.
She was in the writer’s room for Deep State series 2 and for HANNA series 2.

Metamorphoses

Fact

The inaugural Scriptorium residency – the first time that the Globe has had resident writers in 400 years – started in
the winter of 2019.

When lockdown hit

The show Shifted from twelve actors to four, moving from the Globe Theatre to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and
at one point being considered for a digital iteration. The initial plan to develop the show was to have a group of
actors improvising to stimuli.
CUZ OF PANDEMIC they did a Scheduling check-in every couple of weeks with the writers, Race Roughan and Holmes
would send out bi-weekly provocations for the writers to respond to.
Overtime, when lockdown started to end, they were offered two workshops at the Globe, and from there they
started rehearsing.

Process of metamorphoses
After reading their first draft, one of the co-directors said: “We realised all the stuff that referred to 2020 was kind of
detracting from the stories themselves. And bit by bit we stripped that away and got to the emotional heart of the
story.”
They kept discovering contemporary elements of each story, creating many drafts and adapting from them.
Until they finally created an emotional and inspiring adaptation of Ovid’s work.

In rehearsals & Developing

In the rehearsal room paragraph: This is because I understand where the different writers have come from, and I've
found it that took time to use their different techniques to create the play.

After researching paragraph: but they adapted it to become more emotional. I can use this knowledge to look
deeper into why some scenes have so much emotion behind them.