by Selina Thompson.ĭownload a visual guide for Red Dust Road here Watch the trailerĬast includes Stefan Adegbola, Irene Allan, Simone Cornelius, Elicia Daly, Seroca Davis, Sasha Frost, Lewis Howden, Elaine C Smith, Declan Spaineĭeveloped with the support of Macrobert Arts Centre. Completing the creative trio is Dawn Walton, director of the acclaimed salt. Red Dust Road is adapted for the stage by Tanika Gupta, winner of last year’s James Tait Black Prize for her drama Lions and Tigers. Based on the soul-searching memoir by Jackie Kay, adapted by Tanika Gupta, and directed by Dawn Walton. Discover how we are shaped by the folk songs we hear as much as by the cells in our bodies.

Travelling from Scotland to Nigeria, Red Dust Road chronicles Jackie’s 20-year search for her biological mother and father and her quest for them to recognise her own existence. From Nairn to Lagos, Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions. In searching for answers to what makes her - nature or nurture - she decided to find her birth parents. As a child, while watching cowboys and Indians on TV, Jackie noticed her skin was a different colour to her mother’s. It’s a journey full of heart, humour and profound emotion, exploring race, identity and family secrets, with a deeply human curiosity and compassion.īorn in Edinburgh, Jackie Kay grew up in Glasgow in the 1970s as the adopted, mixed-race child of lifelong committed communists. Red Dust Road is adapted from the soul-searching memoir by Jackie Kay, poet, playwright, novelist and Scottish Makar. You are part fable, part porridge.’Īre we as shaped by the folksongs we hear as we are by the cells in our bodies? ‘You cannot find yourself in two strangers who happen to share your genes.

Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay