MARYS SEACOLE: Legacies of Inequality and the Climate Crisis

The Donmar Warehouse Podcast

MARYS SEACOLE: Legacies of Inequality and the Climate Crisis Nadia Latif (director of Marys Seacole) talks with Courttia Newland and Indra Adnan about acts of care. They discuss how the play dissects intergenerational legacies of inequality and colonialism, and how this speaks to the climate crisis. What kind of story-structures are needed now to take better care of each other and create a new world? Recorded during the run of Marys Seacole on 23 May 2022. Nadia Latif is a theatre maker and film director. She trained as a director at RADA under Bill Gaskill. She has worked for buildings & companies including the Almeida, Royal Shakespeare Company, National, Bush, Theatre503 and Arcola. She is currently developing a number of film and television projects. She was Associate Director of the Young Vic theatre from 2018 to 2020. In 2019 she was a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. In 2020 she was a fellow of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. https://www.independenttalent.com/directors/nadia-latif/ @HerrDirector Courttia Newland has published nine works of fiction, including his debut, The Scholar. His latest collection of speculative fiction stories, Cosmogramma, was published in 2021by Canongate (UK) and Akashic Books (US). He has been awarded the Tayner Barbers Award for science fiction writing and the Roland Rees Bursary for playwriting. As a screenwriter he has co-written two feature length films for the Steve McQueen BBC series Small Axe, of which Lovers Rock was jury selected for Cannes, and opened New York Film Fest 2020.Small Axe won the LA Critics Circle award 2020 for Best Picture. https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/courttia-newland https://courttianewland.com/ @courttianewland Indra Adnan is Founder and Co-initator of The Alternative Global, a socio-political platform serving systemic transformation. AltGlobal publishes a Daily Alternative news blog, develops cosmolocal agency networks (CANs) and connects planetary regeneration projects. Indra is concurrently a socio-psychotherapist, writer and consultant on soft power. Clients have included the Danish and Brazilian governments, World Economic Forum and NATO. Her book The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year in 2021. https://indraadnan.global/ @indraadnan Produced by Josh Parr, Dadiow Lin and Heather Pasfield for the Donmar Warehouse Audio Recording: Ed Borgnis, Simon Hendry and Max Hunter Audio Edit and Mix: Ed Borgnis Additional Links - The Alternative Global www.thealternative.org.uk - The Human Givens Institute https://www.hgi.org.uk - The work of Minna Salami https://msafropolitan.com/