10 episodes

Fully Amplified is the new podcast from Futures Theatre.

Discover untold stories from women and non-binary people combined with original drama from the UK’s most dynamic writers.

Exploring love, family, activism, and home, Fully Amplified features extraordinary stories that demand to be heard.

www.futurestheatre.co.uk

Fully Amplified Futures Theatre

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Fully Amplified is the new podcast from Futures Theatre.

Discover untold stories from women and non-binary people combined with original drama from the UK’s most dynamic writers.

Exploring love, family, activism, and home, Fully Amplified features extraordinary stories that demand to be heard.

www.futurestheatre.co.uk

    Black Mermaids

    Black Mermaids

    It's Aunty's last day on Earth. She knows this because she was told by the Greek God, Thanatos, on the Isle of Thanet. But she’s not afraid. This is a story about the gifts we pass on, healing in our community, and connectivity to nature. Inspired by and featuring conversations with a community of Black, Brown and Diaspora women from Margate.
    Content warning: strong language, racism
    Featuring Aunty by Tanya Loretta Dee
    Directed by Jade Lewis
    Performed by Sharon D Clarke
    Sound Design by Nicola Chang
    https://www.futurestheatre.co.uk/fully-amplified

    • 33 min
    Waiting For An Excuse To Turn

    Waiting For An Excuse To Turn

    Ava Wong Davies' piece is built off a series of conversations had with British East and South East Asian women in the wake of a recent uptick in anti-Asian violence. Fusing fantasy and realism, it is an exploration of vulnerability, identity, and home.
    Content warning: strong language, racism
    Featuring Hunger by Ava Wong Davies
    Directed by Mingyu Lin
    Performed by Chloe Ewart
    Sound Design by Nicola Chang

    • 28 min
    When Two Armenians Meet

    When Two Armenians Meet

    Ojen wakes up in the early hours to find the women of her family taking over her kitchen. The noise, smells, tastes and sounds fill up her small flat with memories: of her past, of her heritage, and of distant horrors that bubble just underneath the surface.
    Drawing on her own Armenian heritage and celebrating the lives of the Bedrossian women OLD DOUGH is a story by Abi Zakarian about the power of memories, food and resilience in order to preserve a culture and heritage in the face of genocide and denial.
    Featuring Old Dough by Abi Zakarian
    Directed by Caroline Bryant
    Performed by Jessie Bedrossian
    Sound Design by Nicola Chang

    • 34 min
    Still Gay As Hell

    Still Gay As Hell

    An exploration of internalised misogyny within queer femme bodies and the womxn they romantically love, inspired by conversations with Queer Black women and non-binary people.
    Content warning: strong language, homophobia, transphobia
    Featuring Snow Globe by babirye bukilwa
    Directed by Caroline Bryant
    Performed by Shaniqua Okwok
    Sound Design by Lillian Henley

    • 34 min
    Not Just Two People In Love

    Not Just Two People In Love

    One narrator voices the experiences of multiple women, each in a relationship with a man of a different ethnicity to her own, as they navigate the intersections of race and gender.
    Inspired by conversations with a multi-racial group of women on their experiences of interracial relationships.
    Content warning: strong language, racism
    Featuring Geometries of Love and Power written by Marinella Mezzanotte. Directed by Tian Brown-Sampson
    Performed by Shin-Fei Chen
    Sound Design by Nicola Chang

    • 32 min
    The Belly Of The Wolf

    The Belly Of The Wolf

    Written in response to conversations with survivors of domestic abuse, Belly of the Wolf is a disorientating fairytale of one woman’s journey to recover who she is, and a celebration of their strength, resilience and power.
    Content warning: domestic violence
    Featuring Belly of the Wolf by Alexandra Wood
    Directed by Caroline Bryant
    Performed by Laura dos Santos
    Sound Design by Nicola Chang

    • 36 min

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