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Brassic FM

Three people in a room DJing, holding a microphone and sitting looking at their mobile phone

work. class.
work + class.
working class.

“this is a message for ange

​we're all thinking of you

​know we love you

​know what you're doing for the culture

know what you're doing for me”

Brassic FM is nothing without the listeners. While Amir chronicles the precarious nature of living as an undocumented worker in London, Amina searches for help finding out what life was like for her family when they first moved to the UK from Pakistan. But it soon becomes clear it’s impossible to talk about working class culture without looking at how it’s being policed.

From cars, kitchens and bedrooms across the city comes a theatrical mixtape - a love letter - to working class culture and music. Brassic FM is a collection of snapshots and shout-outs for the people. Join us for a celebration of the underground sounds of the city.

Co-created by poet Zia Ahmed and Stef O’Driscoll, comes an exciting and provocative new piece of theatre about precarity, and how our perspectives on work and making money are tied up in class and culture.

Content guidance: Please be aware that the following themes present in this production – Mentions of Racism, Depictions of Arrest, Protest & Imprisonment, Discussion of Class Injustice, Class Prejudice & the benefit system, Implications of sexual assault, Mentions of parental loss, References of drug use, References to sexual activity, Mentions to Immigration laws, References to war and colonisation and explicit language.

Age guidance: 14+

Duration estimation: Two hours and 15 minutes including interval.

Accessibility

Accessible performance dates are listed on this page under ‘Get Tickets’. For more information about our new wheelchair accessible and step free home in Camden, and how to get there, click here.

Get Tickets

Mon 4 Sep - Sat 30 Sep
evening performances: 7.30pm
saturday matinees: 2:30pm

£12 during previews (4-6 Sep)
£18 full price
£15 Equity members, 60+
£12.50 Access patrons, Camden residents / workers, Under 26s, Students
£5 Unwaged / Unemployed

Camden Community Night: Mon 4 Sep, 7.30pm 

Pay What You Can performance: Sat 16 Sep, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Supporters’ Night: Thu 14 Sep, 7.30pm

Audio-Described Performance: Sat 16 Sep, 2.30pm (a touch tour is available before performance – add to basket)

Relaxed performance: Mon 18 Sep, 7:30pm

BSL Performance: Tues 19 Sep, 7:30pm

Captioned Performance: Tues 26 Sep, 7:30pm

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Cast & CREATIVES

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Zainab
Zainab Hasan
Zainab Hasan (she/her) is well known for her many roles in the theatre and for Writing Wrongs - Equal Measure, a piece she wrote and performed for the Donmar Warehouse. She recently starred as the titular role of Antigone at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre shortly after a run at the Hampstead Theatre in Lotus Beauty as well as Chasing Hares at the Young Vic. Alongside theatre she has also filmed roles in Casualty (BBC One) and Maryland (BBC2, Century Films). Theatre includes: Antigone (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Lotus Beauty (Hampstead Theatre); Chasing Hares (The Young Vic); Rice (Orange Tree Theatre/ ATC); The Welkin (National Theatre); Blank (Donmar Warehouse); Timon of Athens (RSC); Tartuffe (RSC); Tamburlaine (RSC); Hijabi Monologues (Bush Theatre); The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse/ St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC); Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar Warehouse); Boy (Almeida Theatre); Henry IV (St Anne’s Warehouse, NYC); Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse); Tory Boyz (Ambassadors Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Ambassadors Theatre); Prince of Denmark (Ambassadors theatre) Television includes: Casualty (BBC One), Maryland (BBC2, Century Films) Writing includes: Writing Wrongs – Equal Measure (Donmar Warehouse)
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Jonny
Jonny Britcher
Jonny Britcher has extensive performance experience from his time in a music group which saw him perform on stage in venues across the country. Having then trained as an actor at Pinewood studios, Jonny developed a passion for acting and has since gone on to appear in a number of TV adverts (O2, ASDA), student films, a feature film (PACKAGE) and has also been cast as the lead in a number of shorts films (REVENGE IS SWEET, LOYALTY). Jonny has also executive produced and been 2nd AD for the short film ABSENT in which he also plays the lead character.
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Zakiyyah
Zakiyyah Deen
Zakiyyah Deen is an actor and writer born and bred in London with Afro-Caribbean roots. She worked with academy award winning director Steve McQueen on his anthology series SMALL AXE and also played a series regular role in BBC Three Series ENTERPRICE created by Kayode Ewumi. On the writing side, Zakiyyah was Theatre Deli's Classic Residency Artist in 2022 and Tara Theatre's Constellations Artist in 2023. She is currently early stages of development with her debut full length play - WHY A BLACK WOMAN WILL NEVER BE PRIME MINISTER - which she will also star in. This will be Zakiyyah’s London theatre debut.
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Stef O’Driscoll – Co-Creator / Director
Stef O’Driscoll (she/they) is a critically acclaimed and award-winning theatre director. Accolades include With A Little Bit of Luck by Sabrina Mahfouz being the first radio play to be broadcast on BBC 1Xtra, winning Best Radio production at the BBC Radio and Music Awards 2019. Stef was previously the Interim Artistic Director of the Gate, the Artistic Director of nabakov, Associate Director at Paines Plough, Associate Director at the Lyric Hammersmith and Resident Artist at the Tobacco Factory.  When she is not making theatre, Stef is in a drum and bass/jungle rave. She then spends the rest of her time finding ways she can get the people she raves with to come to the theatre.  Directing credits include The Flood (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), How To Save The Planet When You’re A Young Carer and Broke (Boundless Theatre), Love Reign (Young Vic), Herstory (Arch 468/Brighton Festival/Lighthouse), A History of Water in the Middle East (Royal Court Theatre), Inside This Box (Clean Break), Lit (Nottingham Playhouse/Hightide), Box Clever (The Bunker), and Yard Gal (Ovalhouse - winner of Fringe Report Awards for Best Fringe Production 2009).  For Paines Plough: On The Other Hand We’re Happy, Daughterhood, Dexter and Winter’s Detective Agency (Paines Plough/Theatr Clwyd 2019 Roundabout Season); Island Town, Sticks and Stones, How To Spot An Alien (Paines Plough/Theatr Clwyd 2018 Roundabout Season); as well as With A Little Bit Of Luck and Hopelessly Devoted. For the Lyric Hammersmith, as Co Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Janisè Sadik – Associate Director
Janisè Sadik is an emerging theatre director based in South East London. Currently an associate for Coney, former Trainee Director at Paines Plough and Tamasha Directors Programme. Theatre Credits include: Vessel (UK tour) Heart at the centre of the world (Roundabout) Searching for being (Jackson’s Lane) Like there is no tomorrow (ArtsDepot National Youth Theatre) Blurred Lines (Etcetera Theatre) Mouthful of Birds (BADA)
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Giles Kwakeulati King-Ashong – Composer & Musical Director

Giles Kwakeulati King-Ashong aka Kwake Bass is from Lewisham, South London. 1/4 of Speakers Corner Quartet, 1/2 of Con&KwAkE and a founder of the The Room Studios. As musical director currently working with Sampha,Lil silva and Tirzah. As a session drummer has played with the likes of Lianne La Havas, Mica Levi, Joey Basa$$, MF Doom, Roots Manuva,Kae Tempest, Shabaka Hutchings and Novelist. As a producer he explores what lives between the cracks of structured programming with live electronic improvisation.

https://kingkwakebass.bandcamp.com/
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Sandra Falase – Set and Costume Designer
Sandra Falase is an interdisciplinary artist based in London, with a primary focus on live performance design, illustration, and graphic design within their practice. Their formal training was completed at the University for the Creative Arts. In 2018 they became the first recipient of the design bursary awarded by MGCFutures, in conjunction with the Gate Theatre.  Other theatre credits include Sucker Punch (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch & UK Tour); J’Ouvert (Theatre503 & Sonia Friedman Productions); This is Black (Bunker Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre); Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Family Tree (ATC Theatre/GDIF); Emilia (LAMDA); Passion Fruit (New Diorama) Mountaintop (UK Tour). Associate and Assistant Design credits includes A Small Place (Gate Theatre); The Long song (Chichester Festival);The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe). Film includes Signs (BFI) and Brain in Gear (BBC). Sandra has worked on various exhibitions across venues that include the ICA, TATE and Afropunk 2018.
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Dominic Kennedy – Sound Designer
Dominic Kennedy is a Sound Designer and Music Producer for Performance, Theatre, Moving Image and Installation. His work is largely formed through ongoing collaborations and interactions with artists and creatives from a broad range of disciplines. He specialises in the utilisation of sound as a narrative device and evoking meaning from the constructed sonic environment. Dominic has recently designed for and collaborated with Punchdrunk, Stef O'Driscoll, Outbox, Chisato Minamimura, Paines Plough, BBC Radio 1 Xtra, National Trust, Nabakov, Theatr Clwyd, Darling & Edge, Bush Theatre, Jamie Wood, Gameshow, Manchester Royal Exchange, Engineer, Goat and Monkey and Gingerline. https://www.sounddesigndom.com/
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Yassmin V Foster – Movement Director

Yassmin V Foster is an multidisciplinary artist and director of movement. She is a researcher, academic and sound (system) woman with a portfolio career. She has over 20 years of experience working in theatre, from one handers to large scale casts, for local, national and touring work. Yassmin graduated from Goldsmiths University (BA Hons Anthropology and Media) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (MA Choreomundus). She works within a broad range of contexts to create work that interrogates the social, artistic and economic discourse through physical expression. Her work is credited as: Director - Heroin To Hero Ameena Hamid Productions, Laying The Ground [BBC Arts, One Dance UK, BBC Connected Studios for BBC Taster. Movement Director - Hot in Here Pigfoot Theatre, All Roads Attic Theatre, Sessions Paines Plough/ Soho Theatre, award winning Queens Of Sheba Nouveau Riche/ Soho Theatre, Inside Bitch Clean Break/ Royal Court Box Clever Nabokov, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Middle Child Theatre, With A Little Bit Of Luck Paines Plough. Choreographer - Arts Cross virtual residency [Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts SWEAT festival].

www.yassminv.com
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Laura Howard – Lighting Designer
Laura Howard is a freelance Lighting Designer who trained at LAMDA as a recipient of the William and Katherine Longman Charitable Trust Scholarship. Often working in new writing, Laura’s work is led by story, whilst also offering bold and atmospheric designs. Assistant Lighting Designer credits include: Amadigi (English Touring Opera), and Constellations (Donmar/West End).  Lighting Designer credits include: Salty Irina (Broccoli Arts), Invisible (Bush Theatre / 59E59 Theatre), Dismissed (Soho Theatre), Faun (Cardboard Citizens), The Beach House (Park 90), The Kola Nut Does Not Speak English, Clutch (Bush Theatre), Manorism (Southbank Centre), Exodus (National Theatre Scotland), Juniper & Jules (Soho Theatre), Dead Air (Stockroom), Moreno (Theatre 503), SPLINTERED (Soho Theatre), Cells out (Camden People's Theatre), curious (Soho Theatre)
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Zia Ahmed – Co-Creator
Zia Ahmed (he/him) is a poet and writer hailing from North-West London. He is part of the London Laureates, having been shortlisted for London’s Young Poet Laureate 2015/16. He is a former Roundhouse Slam Champion and a Writer in Residence at Paines Plough as part of the Channel 4’s Playwright Scheme 2017. In 2018 he was chosen to be a part of the Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers Group. In 2019, Zia’s stage debut I Wanna Be Yours premiered at the Bush Theatre. He is a recipient of the Royal Court Theatre Jerwood New Playwrights Programme 2021.
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Pete Rickards – Production Manager for eStage

Lavinia Serban – Stage Manager

Heather Smith – Stage Manager

Gurkiran Kaur – Voice and Dialect Coach

Lewis Champney – Assistant PM for eStage

Oliver Horne – Production Electrician

Finn Rowden – Production Sound Engineer

Shout Out To:
Tanzil Chowdhury
Aviah Sarah Day
Adam Elliott-Cooper
Masha Kevinova
Shanice McBean
Kareem Samara
Adam Thorpe
Wajid Yaseen + Tape Letter

Developed with Zainab Hassan, Kwake Bass, Dominic Kennedy, Kayla Meikle & Mason Clarke-Whale.

With development support from NT Studio.

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work. class.
work + class.
working class.

“this is a message for ange

​we’re all thinking of you

​know we love you

​know what you’re doing for the culture

know what you’re doing for me”

Brassic FM is nothing without the listeners. While Amir chronicles the precarious nature of living as an undocumented worker in London, Amina searches for help finding out what life was like for her family when they first moved to the UK from Pakistan. But it soon becomes clear it’s impossible to talk about working class culture without looking at how it’s being policed.

From cars, kitchens and bedrooms across the city comes a theatrical mixtape – a love letter – to working class culture and music. Brassic FM is a collection of snapshots and shout-outs for the people. Join us for a celebration of the underground sounds of the city.

Co-created by poet Zia Ahmed and Stef O’Driscoll, comes an exciting and provocative new piece of theatre about precarity, and how our perspectives on work and making money are tied up in class and culture.

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