Fully Amplified is the new podcast from Futures Theatre, available from 26 July 2021.

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.

To find out more visit www.futurestheatre.co.uk

In this bonus episode, Futures Theatre invited 5 long term participants of its creative engagement programme, all of whom are neurodivergent, to speak about their experiences and share their creative writing.

Featuring writing from Destiny Adeyemi, Sasha Bond, Grace Bryant, Imani and Jade Wilkinson.
Directed by Caroline Bryant
Performed by Marieme Diouf

Content warning - strong language, suicide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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