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Inua Ellams and Fuel present
By Inua Ellams
Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams, born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother in what is now considered to be Boko Haram territory, left Nigeria for England in 1996 aged 12. Littered with poems, stories and anecdotes, Inua tells his ridiculous, fantastic, poignant immigrant-story of escaping fundamentalist Islam, finding friendship in Dublin, performing solo at the National Theatre, and drinking wine with the Queen of England, all the while without a country to belong to or a place to call home.
This will be a special stripped-back version of the hit Fringe show, reimagined for Shedinburgh.
Show Information
Performances
8.10 PM
Run time
75 minutes
Age guidance
12+
Show warnings
Includes themes of immigration and displacement, which may be triggering for people with relevant lived experience.
About Shedinburgh Tickets
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