Featured Playwright
Daniel Gee Husson
About Me: Daniel Gee Husson is a playwright, dramaturg, director, and Founding Artistic Director of the On and Off Theatre Workshop. He received two MLitts, in Playwriting & Dramaturgy in 2018 and Creative Writing in 2019, from the University of Glasgow. Recent dramaturgy and directing credits include work with Short Attention Span Theatre, Stage to Page – Glasgow, Page2Stage – Edinburgh, and Elfie Picket Theatre. His play Beneath premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 and an excerpt of his play The Puddle Play was produced by In Motion Theatre Company as part of a night of staged readings in February 2019. As a reaction to the world we live in, his writing veers into the absurd.
Featured Play
Branded Goods
Two sex-trafficked young migrant women try to deal with their situation as captives in a brothel in an unspecified UK city, overseen by an older woman who - we discover - was once a sex worker herself. All the women in different ways have suffered at the hands of the smooth operator male brothel owner. The play not only explores issues around sex trafficking, sex work generally and societal attitudes towards migrants, but also puts various twists into the changing relationships between its core characters. The action, meanwhile, builds towards a desperate opportunity for the women to escape - but at deadly cost.
Playwright: Norman Miller