Christina Alagaratnam (Spoken Label, May 2022)

Latest up from Spoken Label (Our Author / Poet / Artist Podcast) is a kinda bonus episode you could say before we bring her on for a full session in the Autumn is the wonderful Christina Alagaratnam.

Christina describes herself as "I'm a writer, author, playwright and podcaster. I've published my work on Amazon and work on the London theatre scene. Now, I run my own podcast called The Night Writer, creating content for the insomniacs."

In this episode we talk about the forthcoming production and performance of Christina's play for Peckham Fringe the 2nd and 3rd June 2022 called 'Playfight'. 

'Playfight' is a play where "Fifteen year old best friends Kai, TJ & Zara have been tight since, well, forever. Always together. Inseperable. But as they've grown older things have begun to change. Why did life start to get so complicated? When did the world stop seeing them as children and start demanding that they behave according to some script written in stone and carved decades before their birth? And when did the weight of that stone start to crush them - slowly and imperceptibly at first, until they could hardly breathe? 

Based on an idea by Shereener Browne and written by Christina Alagaratnam, PlayFight examines the corrosive way in which racism determines the direction young Black lives take. "

Tickets for the play can be purchased from: https://www.theatrepeckham.co.uk/show/playfight/

More about Christina can be found at: 

https://chrissysnotebook.com/

https://twitter.com/ChrissyA_92

https://www.instagram.com/xchristina.writer/