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In Yolanda Mercy’s new play, set in London in a time not far from now, Angela is struggling to survive.

Angela does not have all the papers the government says she should.

Can you imagine not being able to get medical treatment, not being able to protest, not being able to hold your employer to account? Can you imagine trusting so few people that making new friends, finding love, means taking an almighty risk? And working every hour you can to send money home to your family who live far away?

That’s Angela’s life.

The government is placing a Documentation App on everyone’s phone, whether they want it or not – and Angela’s life is about to get even more difficult.

Yolanda Mercy’s play Quarter Life Crisis was the first play to be heard on Radio 1Xtra and has been performed in Edinburgh, Lagos, Thailand, and in London, It was chosen to be one of the reopening season shows at the Bridge Theatre London shows in Autumn 2020 where it played to full houses. Yolanda’s first television drama BBW was commissioned and broadcast by Channel 4 and has since been nominated for the 2022 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Best Short Form TV Drama and Best Short Form TV Drama at the 2021 Baftas, and won her The Television Foundation’s Debut Writer Award in the same year.

Her series World of Curls (created with Jade Lewis) is available to hear on Â鶹Éç Sounds /programmes/m000s7m3.

Cast:
ANGELA Deborah Bahi
MONICA Michelle Greenidge
FOX Cash Holland
JAMAL Patrick Elue
IAN Clarence Smith
DOCTOR Nadine Gray
PHONE Esme Scarborough

Other parts were played by members of the cast.

Directed by Yolanda Mercy
Produced by Caroline Raphael
Sound by Wilfredo Acosta at The Soundhouse
With thanks to Zoe Gardner at The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants

A Dora production for Â鶹Éç Radio 4

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