First published in 2020 by Salamander Street Ltd.
Chicken Burger N Chips © Corey Bovell ©2020
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Dedicated to the one person who can say my name wrong and get away with it.
R.I.P Barbara Elaine Bovell (Grandmother)
Chicken Burger N Chips was first performed at Jack Studios, London on 10 March 2020.
The cast was as follows:
| Corey | Corey Bovell |
| Director | Kwame Asiedu |
| Designer/Costume | Sandra Falase |
| Lighting | Pablo Fernandez Baz |
| Sound Designer | Xana |
| Movement | Kara Dee Rai |
| Production Manager | Maeve O’Neill |
| Stage Manager | Frederick Zennor |
| Voice Artist | Justin Marosa & Lauren La Rocque |
| Photography | Aeveen Barghi |
| Artwork | Fabienne Ayton |
| Publicity & PR | Alison Duguid |
| Dramaturg | Neil Grutchfield |
| Produced by | Oisel Production & Rua Arts |
Chicken Burger N Chips was supported using funding by Arts Council England
With generous support from Afterhours, Battersea Arts Centre, Morley’s & The Pleasance Theatre.
COREY BOVELL
Writer/Performer
Chicken Burger N Chips was longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize for Playwrighting 2019.
“Corey Bovell is a master story-teller who oozes charisma, captivating his audience throughout.”
CBNC is a semi-biographical story about me at eighteen during the summer holidays of 2009 between college and uni. It is my tribute to Lewisham borough during my adolescent years. that deals with relationships, gentrification and knife crime, but it’s not all doom and gloom! Ultimately, it’s a story about a young person at a crossroads in his life, seeing his world transform around him.
Theatre includes: 32 Peak Street (Camden Fringe, Tristan Bates Theatre); Are We OK ! (Ovalhouse Theatre); Young Gentlemen (Ovalhouse Youth Theatre).
Writing includes: Red Card (Excellence, The Pleasance); 32 Peak Street (Camden Fringe, Tristan Bates Theatre); Theory of Three (The Vault Festival); Young Gentlemen (Ovalhouse Youth Theatre).
KWAME ASIEDU
Director
“It’s the dynamic performance and Kwame Asiedu’s direction that brings it to life with energy and emotion.”
Kwame Asiedu is a theatre-maker based in London. His work encompasses new writing, devising, community and participation work with young people and adults. He has directed, worked as an Assistant Director or Project Assistant under directors Natasha Nixon, Nancy Medina and Justin Audibert, Stuart Barter and Rachel Bagshaw. Kwame is mentored by Akpore Uzoh, and Gbolahan Obisessan.
Theatre includes: The Marbelous Route Home (Young Vic, Assistant Director); Invisible Light (Tristan Bates Theatre); The Jumper Factory (Young Vic, Assistant Director); Even with a Turkey (Cockpit Theatre); Stains (Evolution Festival, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre).
SANDRA FALASE
Designer/Costume
Sandra Falase is an interdisciplinary artist with solid roots within live art performance design, fine arts and installations – their formal training was completed at the University for the Creative Arts in 2014. Influenced by the intersections of stage design with digital technology and how they engage local and wider communities, they strive to centre the infiniteness of transcendental lived experiences and marginalised stories by applying a transdisciplinary, human-centred and creative approach throughout their practice. Previously at the Young Vic as a young production associate, they worked on shows such as The Jungle and Fun Home as well as leading on design for a multisensory installation centring the experiences of LGBTQ Refugees – Something to Declare. Shortly afterwards. as the 2018 MGCFutures design bursary award recipient in conjunction with the Gate theatre, they later worked as the assistant designer on A Small Place.
Theatre includes: J’Ouvert (Theatre503); This is Black (Bunker Theatre).
Short films include: Signs (BFI); Teeth (Nottingham Primary Gallery).
Television includes: Brain in Gear (BBC2 TV pilot).
PABLO FERNANDEZ BAZ
Lighting Designer
“This is one of the best lighting designs I’ve seen in fringe theatre.”
Pablo Fernandez Baz studied film and photography before graduating as a lighting designer at CSSD.
Theatre includes: Zecura Ura “Hotel Medea” (Hayward Gallery London & International tour); Yellow Earth theatre, The last days of Lime house (Site Specific London); Kali theatre, Sundowning (Tristan Bates); Temoin “Jukai” (BET); The Marked (UK Tour); Nofit Circus Noodles (UK Tour); Cruising, Clubbing, Fucking (Unity theatre); Beyond (EU Tour); Sung – Im Her “You are Ok” (Germany); Suffocation (Ovalhouse); The Grandfathers (Soho theatre); Cuddles (UK tour); Three winters (Emrys studio); Widows (Emrys,); Warheads (Park Theatre); Result (Pleasance); Imogen (UK tour); Rich Rusk Ghetto (Emrys studio); Valhalla (site-specific); CircusFest2018, Casa Festival2018, Tanzsolofestiv 2018, (Dance Festival Bonn).
XANA
Sound Designer
Xana is a Offie nominated sound designer live loop musician, sound artist, theatre maker and poet who has worked on a number of critically acclaimed theatre shows and performed in cities around the world from LA to Accra to Tokyo. Xana’s work focuses on archives and embodying our future narratives and memories using tech to creating interactive spaces and manifest new visions of blackness within reality and sci fi, magical realism and blending genres orchestral noise/thick bass. Xana is featured on the award winning track ‘Afronaut’ on the Mercury prize nominated album of the year Driftglass by Seed Ensemble led by Cassie Kinoshi. Xana is an Associate Artist at Ovalhouse Theatre with their debut show Swallowing Your Idols, co-organiser of Afrotech Fest and publishes the childrens’ comic Afronaut Squad.
Theatre includes: Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre); Grey (Ovalhouse); Nightclubbing (touring); Fairview (Young Vic); Pink Lemonade (Theatre Deli); Just Another Day and Night (Ovalhouse); Mapping Brent Festival, Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre); SEX SEX MEN MEN (Pecs Drag Kings/Yard Theatre); Noughts and Crosses (Pilot Theatre/Derby Theatre); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); Obama and Me (Talawa/Camden People’s Theatre); Black Holes (The Place); Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse); Half-breed (Soho Theatre).
Film includes: Ancestors Came (dir. Cecile Emeke) and the award-winning animation How was your Day (dir. Tal Iungman).
KARA