She was named Scots Makar – the National Poet for Scotland – in March 2016.ĭeveloped with the support of Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling. She was awarded an MBE in 2006, and made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002. Jackie Kay is a celebrated poet, writer and HOME patron who has picked up numerous awards for her novels and story collections, as well as writing extensively for television and the stage. Discover how we are shaped by the folk songs we hear as much as by the cells in our bodies.īased on the soul-searching memoir by Scots Makar Jackie Kay, adapted by Tanika Gupta (winner of the 2018 James Tait Black Prize for Drama), and directed by Dawn Walton (Founder and Artistic Director of Eclipse Theatre). Then she decided to find her birth parents…įrom Nairn to Lagos, Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions. Growing up in ’70s Scotland as the adopted mixed-race child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossomed into an outspoken, talented poet.
“You are made up from a mixture of myth and gene.
0 kommentar(er)
