Busking It

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781786825551
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 130 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Aug 2018
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Cities are full of stories – it’s amazing what you hear if you stop and listen. Drawing on her decade of singing on the tube, Danusia Samal’s Busking It is a journey through the tunnels of the London Underground.

This is a fun, moving and vibrant piece of gig-theatre, giving voice a multiplicity of passers-by: "We meet in detail half a dozen members of the public: her father figure, an old Boxer, a lonely man with two Iron Maiden tickets, a Spanish woman supposedly suffering from amnesia and a threatening man" (A Younger Theatre). 

Blending chance encounters with original live music, Busking It zooms in on the little interactions that show our humanity. It was developed as part of the RSC's Making Mischief festival, and won the HighTide Edinburgh award.

Danusia Samal is a London-born actress, writer and jazz singer. Busking It is inspired by her experience as a London Underground busker. Danusia is also a resident playwright with Tamasha. Other writing credits include Conditionally (Oxford School of Drama/ Soho Theatre), Langthorne Stories (Soho Theatre/ Waltham Forest), and Las Americas Above (Chaskis Theatre).