Directed by Caitlin Skinner
A tense new drama about two best friends and the broken British immigration system.
The British immigration system is broken. Between slogans and party-political hard lines, the people in the middle go unnoticed. The people clearing your plates, serving your drinks, your colleagues, your friends.
Bea and Yemi are best friends, basically sisters. It never crossed Yemi’s mind that Bea would ever betray her, it never crossed Bea’s that Yemi would lie. When Bea catches her boyfriend with someone else, it sets off a chain of events that lands Yemi behind bars at a detention centre, with Bea desperately trying to escape what she’s done.
Co-presented with Traverse Theatre, in association with Stellar Quines.
MICHELLE CHANTELLE HOPEWELL is an actor, writer, and runner up of the St Andrew's Playwriting Award, 2024. She's also a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Detained will mark Michelle's first professional production after it’s showcasing at Page 2 Stage Edinburgh. She was also the 2022 Winner of Spotlight’s “Into The Spotlight” competition, with a self-written piece, Change, which was chosen out of 1000 applicants and judged by Sophie Holland Casting. As a writer Michelle is passionate about inclusion and representation of Black stories and experiences.
CAITLIN SKINNER is Artistic Director and CEO of Stellar Quines. She is one half of award-winning feminist theatre company Jordan & Skinner and director of new writing theatre company Pearlfisher. She was formerly Artistic Director of the Village Pub Theatre and Associate Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Previous directing credits for PPP are Until It's Gone by Alison Carr, Selkie by Kay Singh and The Happiest Day of Brendan Smilie’s Life by Catherine Grosvenor. Other recent credits include Through the Mud by Apphia Campbell, Sister Radio by Sara Shaarawi and Hope and Joy by Ellie Stewart (Stellar Quines); The Time Machine, A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego, At A Stretch and Sanitise (Jordan & Skinner) and the Alone series by Janey Godley (National Theatre of Scotland). Caitlin is co-host of feminist arts podcast Quines Cast.
