Gilded Balloon Productions, Such Small Hands

Part of the Women's Voices mini-season.

Echoes
Following a critically acclaimed season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Fringe First Award winning Playwright Henry Naylor brings Echoes to Brighton. In it, he finds surprising similarities between the Islamist adventurers of today, and early Victorian pioneers.

Presented as a pair of intercut monologues, Echoes tells the stories of two women, born 175 years apart.
One is a student jihadi from London - the other a Victorian member of the Fishing Fleet (thewomen who travelled to India to be brides of those men who were setting up the Empire).

Both are idealists: intelligent adventurers, with strong religious beliefs. Both travel to the East with a mission to impose a system of government upon an unwilling people. The Victorian would play a leading role in the establishment of the Empire; the jihadi, a caliphate…

Echoes is a provocative and brutal tale of colonialism, and the rhyme of history. Echoes features superb performances by Felicity Houlbrooke and Filipa Braganca, and the production won the prestigious Edinburgh Spirit of the Fringe Award 2015. Subsequently, the show is set to go on an extensive Tour, playing not only the UK, but also Australia, Czechoslovakia and Finland.

Such Small Hands
Such Small Hands is an electro-folk/pop project derived from the melancholy writings of Melanie Howard.