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No Table is going to Edinburgh Fringe! Help us bring One Way Out by Montel Douglas to Underbelly Edinburgh this August as the winners of the New Diorama UNTAPPED award!
75 years since the arrival of HMS Windrush into Britain, Montel Douglas’s debut play explores young British Caribbeans’ experiences of the Windrush crisis through the story of four young friends on the cusp of adulthood. Inspired by the true events of his own cousin receiving a deportation letter at the age of nineteen, Douglas tells the important but often neglected story of young people being stripped of their legalities after having grown up in the UK, and the impact that this turmoil has on young British Caribbean's sense of identity. With themes of cultural differences, masculinity and the pursuit of patties, this coming-of-age play explores the friendship of four young men, from different backgrounds but bonded through their South London upbringing. It tackles intergenerational conversations with humour and heart, showing how cycles are perpetuated and secrets kept.
Writer and director Montel Douglas says, "Ultimately it's a piece of work to say to my cousin and everyone who this has happened to "I remember you, and your voice and world hasn't been forgotten about"