Shelley Silas

Shelley’s stage plays include Eating Ice Cream on Gaza Beach (NYT/Soho Theatre), Shrapnel (Steam Industry/BAC), Falling (The Bush Theatre, Pearson Writer-in-Residence 2002), Calcutta Kosher (Southwark Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Theatre Royal Stratford East), Mercy Fine, (Southwark Playhouse, Birmingham Rep). Her radio plays include, The Sound of Silence (short-listed for the Imison Award), Ink, Calcutta Kosher, The Magpie Stories, Collective Fascination, Something Happened (with Luke Sorba), as well as adaptations of Hanan Al-Shaykh’s novel Only in London and, (with John Harvey), Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet.  She’s written a television film for Touch Paper TV, The Wedding Dress, and compiled and edited the short story anthology, 12 Days, published by Virago. She has written and performed specially commissioned short stories at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, and earlier this year at the Hexham Book Festival. She is currently writing two new stage plays. Shelley was born in Calcutta and came to the UK as a child.

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Introduction:
Tony Benn

Singers
Rosemary Ashe
Sally Burgess
Charlie Dore
Johnnie Fiori
Fiona MacDonald
The Manchester
Lesbian & Gay Chorus
Nasrin Parvaz
Annette Reis-Dunne
Andrea Roberts
Peter Straker

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Stella Duffy
Leslie Forbes
David Harsent
Ben Mellor
Shelley Silas
Lemn Sissay

Actors
Janie Dee
Sam Ellis
John Guerrasio
Loveday Smith
Will Strange
Two’s Company
Rupert Wickham
Dan Willis
Chris and Olly

Musicians
Julian Littman (MD)
Neal Thornton

Directors
London: Caroline Clegg
Nepal: Hazel Roy

Special Guests
Mende Nazer
Julie Nicholson


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