Little Miss Burden

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Matilda Feyisayo Ibini draws on her own journey of sharing life with LGMD, in a whirlwind of 90s pop, video games and the joy of having sisters. Little Miss Burden is her most recent award winning stage drama, reimagined for her Radio 4 debut. Big Sis, Little Sis and Little Miss are inseparable, the coolest, fiercest, most super talented-est girl band ever assembled. At 13, Little Miss is given a gift which cannot be returned. It’s a part of her. She has to share her body and life with it. And she needs to find a way for the two of them to get along as they can’t both be Player One. This coming-of-age tale smashes together 90s nostalgia, Nigerian family, East London and Sailor Moon to tell the sometimes tricky, often funny truth about growing up with a physical impairment. Matilda Feyisayo Ibini is an award-winning bionic, queer playwright, screenwriter and (occasional) facilitator from London (a Nigerian Londoner if you will). She has Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy and is a wheelchair user. Her work often centres women, disabled people, queer people and the Black British experience through a magical realist lens. Her debut play, Muscovado for BurntOut Theatre, premiered in October 2014. Muscovado subsequently co-won the Alfred Fagon Audience Award 2015. The Grape that Rolled Under the Fridge was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2019. Little Miss Burden premiered at the Bunker Theatre in 2019, was a finalist for an OffWestEnd Award for Best New Play and won a Popcorn Finalist Award. Co-producer Debbie Hannan's forthcoming stage productions include The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Cast: Little Miss…………………………… Saida Ahmed Lil Sis………………………………….Ani Nelson Big Sis…………………………………Ewa Dina Mum………………….……………….Diana Yekinni Co-Directors ………………………..Polly Thomas and Debbie Hannan Illustration……………………………Geroff My Visuals Sound Recordist……………………John Merriman, Crown Lane Studios Sound Designer……………………..Alisdair McGregor Thanks to dramaturg Jules Howarth. Executive Producer………………….Eloise Whitmore A Naked production for BBC Radio 4