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Featured Playwright
Kayleigh Mai Hinsley
About Me: Kayleigh Mai Hinsley is a playwright and dramaturg of mixed English, Irish and Sri Lankan descent working in Devon and London. Her work has been shortlisted for The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2024 and longlisted for The Peter Shaffer Postgraduate Award for Playwriting. Kayleigh is currently a Paines Plough Mentored Writer in the Landmark Theatres North Devon cohort, as well as a long-term member of Beyond Face’s We Are Here To Write group. She has previously been part of NSDF Lab 2023/24, Roundhouse Works 2023/24 and Omnibus Theatre’s Omni-Wright programme 2024. Her full CV can be found here. Website: www.kayleighhinsley.com Instagram: @kayleigh.hinsley
Featured Play
Irreversible Palestine
Irreversible Palestine is a "conference-piece-landscape" centred around Chilean-Palestinian Ana Harcha’s trip to Palestine in 2022. Harcha explores a dichotomy of unspeakability and a surplus of words through poetry, images, lists, noise and song. The central path of the play comprises anecdotes from the trip and poetic reflections on Palestinian identity. Harcha tells of her first impressions upon arriving: the paradoxical unfamiliarity of being in her ancestral village; seeing faces that look like, that are, her own; the experiences shared with those driving her around; and the first time she saw the eight-metre-high separation wall. After rooting her story in the etymology of Arabic words key to this theme–intifada, used to describe Palestinian uprisings; shuhada, martyrs; sumud, perseverance–Harcha closes the play by reflecting on how she has been changed by this journey, and thinking of all the young children for whom life must, somehow, go on.
Playwright: Elete Nelson-Fearon