Trade

The Studio Theatre, Drama Centre

2021

 

Written by Ella Dorman-Gajic

Cast: Eileen Duffy, Oscar Lloyd, Aarushi Ganju, Eleanor Roberts

Directed by Maddy Corner

Assistant Director: Josh Silverlock

Set Designer: Natasha Gatward

Lighting Designer: Timothy Kelly

Sound Designer: Kristina Kaplin

Costume Designer: Jean Ocidio

Wardrobe Department: Isis Hurley-Jones

“I could tell you I had no choice. I could tell you I’m innocent. But I know that wouldn’t be completely true”

Jana is on the cusp of adulthood; she’s started dating her first boyfriend and is getting ready to leave war-torn Serbia for the UK, to help provide for her family. The future looks bright and she has everything to live for.

When she wakes up in a basement in Bosnia however, unable to remember the night before, it begins to dawn on her that life doesn’t always follow the plans we make for it.

Ella Dorman-Gajic’s new play Trade, takes us inside the European sex-trafficking industry, told through the eyes of a young Serbian girl as she attempts to find a place in a world she never asked to be a part of. As we are taken deeper, any sense of moral certainty evaporates and we are left questioning where to draw the line between victim and perpetrator.

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