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Expensive Shit is both a 2017 play and a 2020 short film both written and directed by Adura Onashile .
Production [ edit ]
Expensive Shit was written by Adura Onashile, an English playwright of Nigerian decent[1] who lives in Glasgow , Scotland.[2] It was funded by the Scottish Government's Made in Scotland program and debuted at the 70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe .[1]
Onashile's 2020 film of the play debuted at the BFI London Film festival .[3]
Synopsis [ edit ]
Expensive Shit is a fictional play inspired by real events at The Shimmy Club in Glasgow, which was forced to remove two-way mirrors from its women's toilets.[1] The play protagonist is Nigerian toilet attendant Tolu (played by Sabina Cameron in the play, and by Modupe Adeyeye in the film) working in a fictional Glasgow nightclub.[1] Tolu previously worked as a dancer in Fela Kuti's Shrine nightclub in Lagos .[1] While at work, Tolu is pushed by her manager to encourage two women to sexually expose their breasts in the mirror in nightclub's toilets; unbeknown to the women, male customers are watching via the two-way mirror.[4] Tolu is later forced to choose between harming the women or saving herself from the situation.[2]
Themes in the play include women's liberation and exploitative working conditions.[1]
Critical reception [ edit ]
Expensive Shit was nominated for the BAFTA Scotland 2021 for Best Short Film. [2] It also won the audience and the critics award at the Glasgow International Film Festival ,[3] and The Scottish Audience Award and The Jury Award at the 2021 Glasgow Short Film Festival .[5] It was praised by Andrea Arhagba writing in Empire for highlighting gender dynamics in nightclubs.[4]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ a b "Adura Onashile" . National Theatre of Scotland . Retrieved 2022-11-22 .
^ a b Arhagba, Andrea (28 Oct 2020). "Expensive Shit" . Empire . Retrieved 2022-11-22 .
^ Festival, Glasgow Short Film (2022-11-23). "Announcing Glasgow Short Film Festival's" . Glasgow Short Film Festival . Retrieved 2022-11-23 .
External links [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Expensive_Shit_(play_and_film)&oldid=1230898065 "
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