Red Dust Road opened at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2019, and then at HOME, Manchester in September 2019. It’s also about her development as a black woman feminist in Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s.” – Tanika Gupta “I think Jackie is an icon of black feminism in this country, and, for me, the play’s not just about Jackie’s relationship with her parents. Discover how we are shaped by the folk songs we hear as much as by the cells in our bodies.īased on the soul-searching memoir by Jackie Kay, adapted by Tanika Gupta, and directed by Dawn Walton.
Then she decided to find her birth parents…įrom Nairn to Lagos, Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions. Growing up in 70s’ Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossomed into an outspoken, talented poet. “You are made up from a mixture of myth and gene.
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