The Crows Plucked your Sinews

A ONE WOMAN PLAY ABOUT SOMALIS IN BRITAIN AND BRITAIN IN SOMALIA

Based on real events and featuring the epic lyrical tradition of Somalia, The Crows Plucked Your Sinews is a unique exploration of the violence of empire and the poetry of resistance.

The date is May 2011: Suuban sits in the dark in a Woolwich council house watching the US assassination of Osama Bin Laden unfold on TV.

The date is August 1913: The British are at war…in Africa. In the interior of British Somaliland the hunt for the ‘Mad Mullah’ is on. A woman dervish warrior searches the body of a British Tommy. Soon battle will be joined:

‘Say, the dervish are like the advancing thunderbolts of a storm, rumbling and roaring’.

Soon these two worlds will fuse and force Suuban to confront her life and those closest to her.

Dervish Productions in association with The Albany.

Nominated for the Alfred Fagon audience award 2016