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A virtual theatre festival staged in lockdown. 

A virtual theatre festival staged in lockdown. Household names join groundbreaking new talent - pushing the boundaries of what theatre can be when there is no audience in the room.

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Dorcas Sebuyange

Gabrielle Ellison

Ade Ajibade

Emmanuela Yogolelo

Odile Mukete

Jennifer Monks

Leanne Jones

Julia Samuels

Tigerlily Productions

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Buttercup

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Fortune is live streaming her truth, weaving together words of survival and solidarity.

Fortune is live streaming her truth, weaving words of survival and solidarity. From a little girl in a bedroom in Kinshasa to a bold young poet in Liverpool, this is her story.

Fortune is live streaming an informal spoken word gig to her online followers. As she takes the mic, she desperately hopes that her audience will include the one person who needs to hear her truth: her mother.
 
Weaving together words, poems, and memories, she shares her story,  from her life as a vulnerable little girl in a bedroom in Kinshasa to a bold young woman partying and performing in Liverpool.

Only now is she ready to revisit a past she has locked away, to recognise the power behind her mother’s warnings, and to accept the truth that she was never to blame for what happened to her.

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