ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Ten audio-stories, written and performed by female artists who have migrated to the UK from ten different countries. What are the “things” people associate with migrant womxn? We certainly know what we are NOT. Recognising the stereotypes often projected on migrant womxn, LegalAliens Theatre asked 10 artists to respond to the theme THINGS I AM NOT, picking a style that truly represents them.
Update frequency:
every 10 days
Average audio length:
22 minutes
English
United Kingdom
16 episodes
since Feb. 22, 2021
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~88.03% of listeners are from United States.
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US
88.03%
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BR
10.42%
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GB
1.15%
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DE
0.38%
Others
0.02%
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
LegalAliens’ Lara Parmiani, Becka McFadden and Emmanuela Lia, creator of Things I Am Not, sit for a chat with Roxana Silbert, Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre.
Roxana is one of very few women born outside the UK who currently hold leadership roles at producing theatres with their own buildin…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Theatre doesn’t exist in a vacuum and the attitudes, cliches, and prejudices we see on stage and in creative practices simply mirror our society. In this episode, we invite back two Things I Am Not artists - Yasmeen Ghrawi and Lanna Joffrey - for a conversation with Zrinka Bralo, CEO of Migrants Or…
LegalAliens’ Lara Parmiani and Becka McFadden sit down for a chat with Tamara Rojo, artistic director of the English National Ballet. We ask how migration and artistry intersect in a field dominated by the expressivity and technical ability of the dancing body. What acts of translation might still …
We Zoom in for a chat with Nastazja Domaradzka, director, theatremaker and force of nature. We ask Nastazja how her migrant experience and the theatre she grew up watching in Poland have shaped her practice today and delve into British theatre’s seeming pursuit of apoliticality.
Unpicking this pol…
10 weeks, 10 voices, 10 stories. Now that all 10 episodes of Things I Am Not have been released, the creative team behind the podcast gets together to talk about what’s surprised us, what’s stayed with us and where we might be going next. This episode is the first in our series of bonus discussion …
“When a Black African migrant woman is in a relationship with a white man, the organ on her body that society gives its highest attention to is her vagina. On the one hand, everytime me and my 'white lover' make love, I am not me and he is not him. I am Africa allowing itself to be taken …
“I’m not into politics / naively I used to say / not realising that everything is political or - a better way to put it - politicised.”
Intense and personal, “I’m Not Into Politics” by Mai Weisz navigates an uneasy terrain of geopolitics and interpersonal relations. Shot through with love and fear,…
“I miss my mom. I can’t sleep.
I can feel my tears running down my cheeks.
The English sentence I speak most frequently is ‘I’m sorry’.
But you know what? I’m not sorry.
It’s not my fault.”
As migrant women, how often do we feel forced to pretend that we are fine when we are actually hurting insi…
“This is the ultimate act of compassion and our bravest encounter. To be and bear witness to our being.”
Yasmeen’s monologue isn’t for the faint-hearted. Her raw, honest, and fierce prose evokes a painful and shocking journey - real and metaphorical - into the darkness and beyond. A young woman’s …
“Somebody once told me people who migrate are like tortoises, struggling under the weight of that home they take with them everywhere they move to. I’m not sure it’s right. I think we leave bits of home along the way, we shed them like skin, scatter them and in the end, we just have a skeleton left…
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