
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.









